This Sunday, for his return to Ligue 1, OGC Nice dominated RC Lens (2-1) thanks to a double from Amine Gouiri, the former striker of Olympique Lyonnais.
For several seasons, the training center of the Rhone club has been one of the best in Europe. Almost every season new young people make their holes in the Gones first team. Under the orders of Rudi Garcia, the young Maxence Caqueret, for example, revealed himself to the general public during the course of OL in the Champions League. Young people like Melvin Bard or Rayan Cherki, already fully integrated in the pro group, will surely be the next Gones to appear in the typical team of Lyon. But this path does not work for everyone, since some Lyonnais are forced to leave the nest to hatch elsewhere. This is particularly the case of Amine Gouiri, who was transferred to Nice against a check for 7 million euros during this summer transfer window. Very good among young people at OL, but slowed down in his progress because of a rupture of the cruciate ligament at the knee in 2018 then blocked by offensive competition, the 20-year-old striker therefore had to fly from Lyon.
And his revelation at the highest level did not drag on since from his first L1 match with the OGCN this Sunday, Gouiri scored a brace, which gave the victory to Patrick Vieira’s side. A success that does not surprise Stéphane Guy, for whom Lyon has become the new training center of the Aiglons. “It’s Nice’s great specialty to recycle Lyonnais forwards. There was Loïc Rémy in the past. Very recently, there was Alassane Pléa, who succeeded in Nice after playing very little in Lyon. And now there is Gouiri! Nice recruiters have this eye on the side of OL “, launched the journalist of Canal+, who knows that Myziane Maolida, transferred from OL to Nice for 10 ME in 2018, will perhaps be the next Lyonnais to succeed on the side of the Allianz Riviera.
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