Sarah M'Barek

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Sarah M'Barek (born October 13, 1977 in Chaumont ) is a former French soccer player and now a coach .

Player career

In their clubs

Sarah M'Barek comes from a football-loving family; her father was a coach and one of her older brothers was a player in the sport. At the age of 15 she came to US Orléans ; if they are a year later, when the women's team for one season in the top league of France was represented, it was already too point stakes, can not be determined with reference to the sources used. After a season at ASC Joué-lès-Tours , she moved to ESOF La Roche in 1997 , where she not only developed into a regular player, but was also appointed to the national team in her first few months (see below) . The midfielder was next to Angélique Roujas the formative force in La Roche, which had at that time its sporty successful years: 1999 and 2001 Sarah M'Barek were each French Vice Champion.

As in her four seasons in La Roche-sur-Yon , she closed with the HSC Montpellier , active for the M'Barek 2001-2005 and early the captain had been appointed, never worse than fourth place of the final table. There she won her first championship title in 2004 and was even able to repeat this success a year later . In addition, she had reached the final with the MHSC in the 2001 newly introduced national cup competition (Challenge de France) in 2003 , in which, however, FC Lyon then prevailed 4-3. In the 2004/05 season she was in the starting line-up in all six matches of the European Cup , for which Montpellier had qualified for the first time. Montpellier's midfield of those years with Camille Abily , Sonia Bompastor , Ludivine Diguelman and M'Barek was an essential component of this success. Sarah M'Barek, however, had repeatedly struggled with injuries, especially in 2003/04; that's also why she decided after the second championship - and regardless of her only 27 years - to end her career as a player at least at this level. However, she stayed in Montpellier (see below, “Coaching” ) and later helped out in the club's second eleven in an emergency, for example in its third division 2009/10 season.

Stations

  • AS Vallée du Lys Pont (until 1993)
  • US Orléans (1993-1996)
  • ASC Joué-lès-Tours (1996/97)
  • ESOF La Roche (1997-2001)
  • HSC Montpellier (2001-2005)

In the national team

Sarah M'Barek has played a total of 18 internationals for France , although she did not play the majority of the games for a full 90 minutes. She failed to hit a goal in the blue national jersey. For the first time Élisabeth Loisel , the coach of the Bleues , called her in October 1997 in a match against Switzerland , against which the midfielder also completed her last international match in August 2002.
But there were also two longer breaks: between spring 1999 and August 2000 and between April and September 2001 she was never in the French womanhood. This last-mentioned break also cost her an appearance at the European Championship finals in Germany , although Loisel had nominated her for the French EM squad . She is said to have been one of the supplementary players who had criticized the coach's tactical concept from within the team after the second group defeat against Denmark .

Against teams from German-speaking countries, Sarah M'Barek played not only against the Swiss women , whom she met three times, but also against Austria (1999), but never against the German women .

Coaching

After her playing days, Sarah M'Barek completed her coaching training, which was still very rarely the case with former players in France. In 2007 she replaced Patrice Lair as head coach at Montpellier's first women eleven. She held this position for six years, always led the MHSC among the four best teams in the league and won the French runner-up in 2009 and the national cup in the same year after a 3-1 final win over UC Le Mans . In the cup competition, she led her women to the final three more times, in which Montpellier lost each time: 2010 5-0 against Paris Saint-Germain , 2011 only after penalties against AS Saint-Étienne and 2012 1-2 against Olympique Lyon .

In the summer of 2013, the ambitious Sarah M'Barek (“Why not work in the coaching staff of a professional men's team one day?”) Took over the post of head coach at En Avant Guingamp after twelve years in Languedoc , where she introduced women to the four top clubs in the league wanted to. At the same time, she took care of the training of the next generation there. In the 2013/14 season , as in the following year, she was the only woman to coach a French first division. Guingamp led them within range of third rank in Division 1 in 2014/15 . After five years, the coach and EA Guingamp separated at the end of the 2017/18 season, without the Bretons being able to establish themselves with the “big ones” in the league.

In September 2019, she took over the command of Djibouti's national women's team , which is not included in the current FIFA world rankings due to the lack of international matches, but wants to qualify for the Africa Cup at the end of 2020 . In fact, her position includes the development of completely sustainable structures in women's football in the former French colony, including those for young women. After participating with the team in Tanzania at the end of the year in the Challenge Cup of the regional association Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) , she published a global call on Twitter and LinkedIn to all players of Djiboutian nationality or origin to join the national team to provide. In the summer of 2020 she returned to France, where she coached the second division team from Racing Lens , newly formed by transferring from Arras FCF .

Palmarès

As a player

  • French champion: 2004, 2005 (and vice champion 1999, 2001)
  • French Cup: 2003 finalist
  • 18 full internationals for France

As a trainer

  • French championship: runner-up in 2009
  • Champions League quarter-finalist: 2010
  • French Cup Winner: 2009 (and finalist 2010, 2011, 2012)

literature

  • Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ The only source that it is Chaumont in the Haute-Marne department is this article on France Football . Sarah M'Barek's early club stations suggest that her place of birth is one of the Chaumonts from the Loir-et-Cher department .
  2. ↑ after the interview on June 9, 2017 at actufoot.com
  3. ↑ cf. M'Bareks data sheet at footofeminin.fr (see under web links )
  4. ↑ According to their data sheet at footofeminin.fr (see under web links ) there were even 19 internationals; there a (tenth) game is mentioned for the period 1997 to 1999, which is missing on the association's website as well as in Grégoire-Boutreau, pp. 265/266.
  5. ↑ Grégoire-Boutreau, pp. 153f.
  6. ↑ see the information in Laurence Prudhomme-Poncet: Histoire du football féminin au XXe siècle. L'Harmattan, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-7475-4730-2 , p. 246
  7. ↑ Quoting from an article "I want to stir up the championship" from October 4, 2013 at footdelles.com
  8. ↑ after the article "I know what I will bring to Guingamp" from May 30, 2013 at footdelles.com
  9. ↑ see the article “I want to stir up the championship” from October 4th, 2013 at footdelles.com
  10. ↑ Article “ Sarah M'Barek leaves En Avant Guingamp at the end of the season ” from April 22, 2018 at footofeminin.fr
  11. ↑ Article “ Sarah M'Barek publishes a call to find players ” from January 30, 2020 at coeursdefoot.fr
  12. ↑ Article “ Djibouti and Burundi teams arrived ” from November 12, 2019 at cecafafootball.com
  13. ↑ M'Barek's appeal from January 2020 on twitter.com
personal data
SURNAME M'Barek, Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Chaumont