Valérie Gauvin

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Valérie Gauvin in early 2013

Valérie Gauvin (born June 1, 1996 in Sainte-Clotilde ) is a French football player . The goalscorer was considered one of the greatest offensive talents in women's football in France from an early age and is also a national player .

Club career

Valérie Gauvin was born in a district of Saint-Denis on La Réunion , but came to mainland France with her parents at a very young age . There she soon joined the football club from where she lived at the time, Mirande ; In Auch , 25 km away , she first attended a secondary school. When she was just 12, Toulouse FC brought her to their youth center in Blagnac , where she was by far the youngest female footballer. At the Téfécé, the skills of the striker were promoted and recognized higher places; when she was still eligible to play for the C-youth, she was already a regular player in the A-youth eleven (nowadays mostly called U-19) of the club, and the regional association FFF regularly appointed her to its U-16 and U from 2012 -17 national teams (see the section below). In the 2012/13 season she also played half of all first division games with Toulouse's women's team - she made her debut in October 2012 in a game at FC Vendenheim  - and after its relegation to the second division (2013) also there 20 of the 22 point games. She was elected top scorer in Division 2 and the best player in the southern group with 32 goals. In 2013/14 she was only called up in three games with the U-19s - but in them she scored 19 goals.

In 2014 Gauvin moved to Montpellier HSC , one of the top four French clubs, where it was initially difficult for her to assert herself. Still, she made 13 league appearances in her first year there, and despite only starting three times, she scored seven goals. She also managed to score four goals in three appearances in the state cup competition . Since the 2015/16 season , she and the almost equally young Marie-Charlotte Léger have been forming an extremely dangerous duo at the MHSC , which has already managed seven “ stalls ” on the first three match days .

After six years at the MHSC, Gauvin moved to the English first division club Everton LFC in the summer of 2020 .

Right-footed by nature, the 1.73 m tall striker has an "excellent header game and is also particularly successful with long-range shots". Valérie Gauvin, also known as "Ronalda" or "Little Ronaldo " by the media and teammates because of her accuracy, started studying in 2015 in Montpellier .

Stations

  • Football Club Mirande (2003-2008, as a child)
  • Toulouse Football Club (2008-2014, in youth and women's teams)
  • Montpellier Hérault SC (2014-2020)
  • Everton Ladies Football Club (since 2020)

National player

Valérie Gauvin has played for two French vintage selection teams. For the younger B-youth group (U-16) she was on the team in five international matches in early summer 2012 - including the U-16 Nordic Cup  - and scored three goals. With the U-17, she played nine games between September 2012 and March 2013 under coach Angélique Roujas and her successor Guy Ferrier , six of them in the first two rounds of the European Championship ; here she even scored nine times for the French women. Your regular strike partner there was Marie-Charlotte Léger.

But despite their impressive hit rate, Gauvin was not considered in the U-18 / U-19. On the one hand, this was due to the fact that she only played in the second division with Toulouse in 2013/14 and had teething problems at Montpellier the following year. On the other hand, coach Gilles Eyquem bet on Clarisse Le Bihan and Kadidiatou Diani at the U-19 European Championship in 2013 , when France won the title, and on Léger, Delphine Cascarino and Gauvin's club-mate Sakina Karchaoui at the 2015 European Championship . She was nominated for the U-20 World Cup in 2016 , played five games - mostly as a substitute and without scoring herself - and was runner-up.

For this purpose, the freshman was selected by Jean-François Niemezcki , who is also the trainer of the B national women , at the Summer Universiade in July 2015 in the French university selection. She played all six games in South Korea and lived up to her reputation with just as many goals. In the long open final against Russia she was substituted on in the 50th minute, scored the decisive 1-0 18 minutes later (Footoféminin wrote his game report "Valérie Gauvin breaks the spell"), and a quarter of an hour later an opposing defender steered one of her headers to the 2-0 final score in their own goal.

In September 2015 national coach Philippe Bergeroo nominated Valérie Gauvin surprisingly for two games of the senior national team ; in it she remained without a job, but was called up again a month later and made her debut for the last 20 minutes of the friendly against the Netherlands . Bergeroo then certified her "enormous talent", but at the same time criticized her casualness, which had to be overcome.

In April 2016 she was in France's “second suit” against Serbia's A-Elf in the starting line-up and scored the goal to make it 2-0. For the Istria Cup 2017 it was again included in the squad of France B; in this tournament you get three goals. Since her performance curve was also showing up in the club, Bergeroo's successor Olivier Echouafni nominated Valérie Gauvin in his 2017 European championship squad , even if only as one of six reservists. After this tournament, Corinne Diacre replaced Echouafni, and she even used the striker repeatedly in France's starting XI - almost two years after Gauvin's debut at the Bleues. In 2019 she was appointed to the French 23-man squad for the World Cup in her own country .

In her 31 full international matches so far, Valérie Gauvin has scored 15 goals; including a hat trick against Nigeria in spring 2018 . (As of March 10, 2020)

Palmarès

  • Winning the 2015 Summer Universiade
  • D2F top scorer 2013/14

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b according to Gauvin's data sheet on the Montpellier HSC website
  2. ^ A b after the interview with Valérie Gauvin in La Dépêche du Midi on April 15, 2014
  3. ↑ according to the list of missions of the TFC players 2012/13 at footofeminin.fr
  4. ↑ see the season article 2013/14 on the club website of the TFC
  5. ↑ a b after the interview with Gauvin on September 16, 2015 at L'Équipe
  6. ↑ see the overview of their U-16 games for France at footofeminin.fr
  7. ↑ see the overview of their U-17 games for France at footofeminin.fr
  8. ↑ see the final report with a longer video from July 13, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
  9. ↑ Article " Bergeroo: You have to show killer instinct in front of the opponent's goal " from October 25, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
  10. ^ Match report France B against Serbia A from April 8, 2016 at footofeminin.fr
personal data
SURNAME Gauvin, Valérie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Sainte-Clotilde (Réunion)