The Angloys have therefore not won against Aviron since the 2018-2019 season. And in everything that makes up a derby, he starts to do a lot. But since just prior to this current negative streak, Genêts had chained four games and two seasons (2017-2019) without defeat, it is balanced. “These matches against the neighboring club are always different matches, explains Inaki Claverie, captain of Genêts d’Anglet. As soon as the calendar comes out, we look at it first and check the dates of the two matches of the year. But very often they are balanced matches ”, he assures him.
“I still feel like I’ve won more derbies than I’ve lost”
The Saint-Palais native knows both clubs well. Both teams, too. After evolving Federal into Rowing for 14 years and then spending three years at the Girondins training center, he returned to the banks of the Nive for five years before making the leap. Like many players before and after him, he decided to play for the “enemy” club. “In my memories I still feel like I’ve won more derbies than I’ve lost, he jokes. I remember a meeting in Deschamps where we weren’t necessarily favorites. Rowing was, in any case, in a better position than us and in the struggle for membership. There were quite a few English fans in the stands and we won 3-1. Everyone saw us as losers before the game. The midfielder, almost thirty, will not even tell us that he had been a scorer that day.
