Sonia Bompastor, to repeat as a coach what she has achieved as a player

sonia bompastor (41 years old) is the first woman to coach Olympique Lyon for women throughout its award-winning history, a club where she has already excelled as a footballer in two seasons (2006-09 and 2010-13) and where his technical staff is. collaborated since she retired in 2013, as well as running the club’s Women’s Academy. After becoming a mother in 2015 and adopting twins in 2017, with occasional appearances as a TV commentator, she didn’t leave OL until her big chance as a coach came in April 2021. President, Jean-Michel’s Classroomsbet on him when he dismissed Jean-Luc Vasseurthat the team was recently eliminated from the 2020-21 Champions League despite the fact that the coach led the team to the fifth consecutive European crown (2019-20) and seventh in its history.

certainly, sonia bompastor He won the first two, 2010-11 and 2011-12, as a left-back, although he also played as a defensive midfielder. He was the captain and managed to lift the cup after Lyon beat Turbine Potsdam (2-0) and FFCFrankfurt (2-0). She could be the first woman to win the Champions League as a player and coach, imitating Miguel Muñoz, Giovani Trapattoni, Johan Cruyff, Carlo Ancelotti, Frank Rijkaard, Pep Guardiola and Zinedine Zidane.

So he is a partner Wendie Renard, Eugènie le Sommer, Amandine Henry, Amel Majri and Sarah Bouhaddi, now at your command. Last season, he didn’t arrive in time to win the League that PSG won, but he currently holds the local championship (5 points ahead of PSG with 6 at stake) and will play in today’s Champions League final League against Barca.

Daughter of Portuguese emigrants born in Blois, on the banks of the Loire River between the cities of Orleans and Tours, sonia bompastor (41 years old) is a French women’s football legend as a player.

He became a soccer fan as a child in the arms of his father, a referee he accompanied on regional fields. At the age of 8 he started playing at a club in the area and at the age of 12 he was chosen to train in the facilities of French Federation of Clairefontaine along with a bunch of promises at the beginning of France’s commitment to women’s football.

Professionally, he started at age 20 at ESOF Vendée La Roche as a midfielder or left-back with a good handle on the ball and a tactical sense of play. and succeeded Montpelier (2002-06) at Olympique Lyon (2006-09), a club to which he returned between 2010 and 2013 after jumping to the United States (2009-10 in Independence in Washington) and a short passage through PSG in 2010. He won 8 French Leagues (2 including Montpelier and 6 with Lyon) and 4 Cups (1 with Montpellier and 3 with Lyon), in addition to the two mentioned Champions League.

Sa France he played 156 games and scored 18 goals, participated in three European Championships and two World Cups, being captain for two years. As a curiosity indicating his association with French football, the Montreuil-en-Touraine stadium, inaugurated on June 15, 2013 on his land, bears his name.