Relaunched in 2016, the women’s section of USC, whose first team plays in R2, is increasingly attractive. Transfer to Capitany to understand the keys to success, during a Coupe de France match punctuated by a nice 9-1 success against Gaillac.
“This photo, it says it all,” promises Patrick Delacroix, rummaging through his phone. Once the file has been found, the face of the president of US Colomiers lights up, in the same way as that of the 7 or 8 girls who strike a pose, soccer jerseys on their backs: “4 or 5 years ago , we would never have seen those smiles. We would have seen girls coming in and wondering what they were doing there. “
The date is not chosen at random. Five years ago, that’s when the project to reopen women’s sections came to fruition, decades after the heyday of USC girls in the 1980s. And today, “the demand is huge, “welcomes the strong man of USC, which now has nearly 200 licensees in all age categories.
Equity premium …
Behind this success, there is in particular Charlène Sorribas, described by its president as “the alter ego of Patrice Maurel (coach of the N2 men’s team and technical manager, Editor’s note). In Colomiers, the former player of the TFC said to have found what is too rare elsewhere: consideration. “In many clubs, girls never have priority, even at an equal level. On vehicles for travel, equipment, that sort of thing. Whereas here, we are placed on the same level as the boys. For example, we have match bonuses: the idea is that it doesn’t cost girls to play football. “
An idea of equity which “is at the heart of the project”, assures Patrick Delacroix, who is working to organize the women’s section of the club mirroring the men’s section, notably with a dedicated board commission. “This leads to what I call the Colomiers effect”, details the president: the girls who are not taken in professional clubs know that here, they will find a structure worthy of these professional levels … Even if the priority will remain to form Columerins “, he specifies.
… and diversity
If for the first time since 2016, USC was forced to refuse girls, Charlène Sorribas knows that “the balance remains fragile”, for an activity that tends to cost money rather than bring it back.
So, she gets involved in projects, like the one carried out with Pierre Geevers in a 6th grade class at Voltaire college, with “the idea of telling girls that football can be learned” and making it easier to practice on time. extracurricular.
USC has also decided to merge the girls and boys sections up to U10, a way of “perpetuating the same football culture within the club” as Patrick Delacroix wishes. In Colomiers, man or woman, we only have one swimsuit, which delighted Charlène Sorribas, happy not to have seen the girls differentiated by a pink swimsuit or something like that. Sunday, it is in orange that the seniors, trained by Madjid Alliche and Cédric Aït-Ali swept Gaillac (9-1) in the Coupe de France. To the delight of the ladies.
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