It is this weekend, in Toulouse and Blagnac, that the final stages of the French women’s ice hockey championship take place. Among the best players of this season, the Rafales d’Occitanie are in the running to win the national title at home. We were backstage at their first game.
Introduction complicated for the organizing club. Friday April 1, the ice hockey players of Occitanie lost the first match of the final four 4 to 5 against the Grenoble team. That of their adversaries between Tours and Cergy-Pontoise was won by the Tourangelles 4 goals to 2. There are still two games left for the Southerners to win the championship.
Reunion at the top
With its atypical functioning, the club in red and gold colors, brings together players from Nîmes, Cauterets, Toulouse/Blagnac, Font-Romeu, Montpellier and Castres. Training takes place in their respective cities at a frequency of three times a week. It is therefore only on weekends, during matches, that the girls play together. To face the best French clubs, they are surrounded by volunteers from the ice rinks of Alex Jany in Toulouse and Jacques Raynaud in Blagnac. In this video, discover the interview of striker Julie Pflieger, defender Alexane Jeanpierre, or goalkeeper Amélie Calbel.
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