Hoda Lattaf

Hoda Lattaf

Hoda Lattaf (born August 31, 1978 in Bordeaux ) is a former French soccer player with Moroccan roots.

Club career

The attacker played as a teenager at SC La Bastidienne Bordeaux and then until 1997 at FC Gujan-Mestras in the region where she was born; During this time Hoda Lattaf was trained at the Center technique national Fernand-Sastre . Then she moved, still as an amateur, to FC Lyon , where she won her first French championship title in 1998 and also became a national player, and immediately afterwards to ESOF La Roche . From 2001 to 2006 she was back on the pitch for a woman from the south of France: with HSC Montpellier , she won other titles almost in series (championships in 2004 and 2005, cup victory in 2006).

In 2006 she moved to Olympique Lyon , where she was also twice national champion and in 2008 also added another win of the national cup to her impressive Palmarès . In the course of the 2008/09 season, Hoda Lattaf had actually already ended her playing career, completed an apprenticeship in club management at Olympique and made her coaching license at the same time . But then she followed the call of her long-term club from Montpellier and has played there regularly in the first division of the MHSC since the beginning of 2009, now mostly in midfield  - where she won the club cup again in 2009 and reached the final of this competition in both 2010 and 2011.

The soccer player, who was named Hoda Laalami after marriage, was still active at the MHSC in the 2013/14 season before she ended her career shortly before her 36th birthday.

Lattaf is one of the most dangerous attackers in league history; between 2001/02 and 2006/07 she ended a season with the second highest number of hits five times - but the crown as the best scorer was denied her.

In the national team

Between November 1997 and June 2007, Hoda Lattaf was in almost no A-international for the French . When she hung up her boots at the Bleues during her time in Lyon , she had played 111 international matches in which she had scored 27 goals. This also included participation in two European ( 2001 , 2005 ) and one World Cup finals ( 2003 ).

In view of her continued performances in the club, however, it was no great surprise that national coach Bruno Bini called the 32-year-old Hoda Lattaf in his preliminary squad for the World Cup in Germany in 2011 ; however, he then deleted them from the final list.

Palmarès

• French champion: 1998, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008
• French cup winner: 2006, 2008, 2009
• World Cup participant 2003
• European Championship participant 2001, 2005

Web links

• Datasheet on the website of the French Association

Notes and evidence

1. ↑ see the interview from February 14, 2014 at footofeminin.fr