Sandrine Mathivet

Sandrine Mathivet (2012)

Sandrine Mathivet (born October 25, 1968 in Saint-Rémy) is a former French soccer player who has worked as a coach and functionary since the end of her career . Until 2014 she worked almost exclusively for the women's club Juvisy FCF .

Player career

All that is known about Sandrine Mathivet's sporting path is that she was a defender at Juvisy FCF from 1993 ; at this point she was already 25 years of age. In the sources used, there is neither her previous club stations nor information about the question of whether she was active in Juvisy's first division or in another team at the club. It cannot be said at the moment whether she was involved in winning one or more of the five national championship titles that the women’s eleven won between 1994 and 2003. This is because the 1990s or even earlier decades of French women's football and championship history have not yet been dealt with in 2015.

As a trainer and functionary

The full-time sports teacher trained the club's girls' teams even during her playing days; In 2003 she took over the training of Juvisys Reserve elf; Despite a successful five years with this "second set" (you managed, among other things, a rise), the club management initially hesitated to entrust you with the first division women when Éric Duprat ended his activity there. From 2009 onwards, she held this position and remained head coach until 2013. Her successor in the dugout was again a man with Pascal Gouzènes . During the four years Mathivet led the JFCF twice to the French runner-up ( 2010 and 2012 ) behind "series champion" Olympique Lyon . In the European Cup , the women she mentors , including several national players such as Anne-Laure Casseleux , Camille Catala , Amélie Coquet , Sandrine Soubeyrand , Gaëtane Thiney , Laëtitia Tonazzi and Belgian Janice Cayman , made it to the quarter in 2011 and even that in 2013 Semifinals . In the latter competition, the lot had chosen Lyon to be Juvisy's opponent, who blocked the way to the final. On the European stage, the trainer has looked after her women in a total of 17 encounters.

In 2013, Sandrine Mathivet switched to the position of sports director at Juvisy , where she worked intensively with Marinette Pichon , a former “ player icon ” of the club; she held this role until the end of 2014. In December 2014 she accepted a "new challenge" - in her own words - and left Juvisy FCF after a good 21 years. Since then she has been a member of the Direction Technique Nationale (DTN) of the French Football Association and coordinator at the Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance (INSEP); This institution, which is subordinate to the Ministry of Sport, combines school education and sporting promotion of young and growing top athletes of all disciplines of both sexes, but also sport science and medical research and application.

For the 2016/17 season she was hired as head coach by the women's second division FCO Dijon .

Mathivet's take on women's football

From decades of intimate knowledge of her sport, Sandrine Mathivet has developed a pronounced attitude that has not only been and is repeatedly taken up not only by the specialist media. This is how she formulated the comparisons between women's and men's football that have been made over and over again - and which she also characterizes as not very useful:

“Women play cleaner, the duels are less rough. And the girls are technically in no way inferior to the men. Women's football represents a return to the roots [of this sport]. "

She has already recommended to many journalists that it would be better if they “pay less attention to the physical characteristics” of female athletes. Although she is a proponent of a further professionalization of women's football, at the same time she warns against setting the wrong priorities; Priority should be given to the training and education of young people and young women. Sandrine Mathivet believes that it is very important to “prevent the same amounts of money flowing in as the men” - she sees them as “indecent”.

At the same time, she complains that even in today's society there is often an attitude that prevents girls interested in football from practicing their sport because they do not want to be seen as “prevented boys”.

Notes and evidence

1. ↑ see their almost empty data sheet at footofeminin.fr, accessed on January 27, 2015
2. ↑ after the article " Behind a women's soccer team there is always a male coach " from July 16, 2011 in the Nouvel Observateur
3. ↑ data sheet at uefa.com
4. ↑ see the report “Mathivet goes to the DTN” ( memento of the original from April 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from December 4, 2014 at le-republicain.fr 
5. ↑ see Mathivet's statement in this regard  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from March 12, 2013 at mesdebats.com  
6. ↑ from the article "Women's football is cleaner" from July 12, 2011 at L'Express
7. ↑ All quotes in this paragraph from the interview "For 30 years, women's football has been muddling through all by itself" with Sandrine Mathivet on June 22, 2011 at Le Monde
8. ↑ to “Women's football, a sport in full bloom” from April 22, 2013 at jeunes-journalistes.com