Clara Mateo, the Paris FC attacker, was elected best player of the season in the first female League. Her Sandrine Soubeyrand coach was also rewarded. Seven OL players appear in the typical team.
The Paris FC attacker, Clara Mateo, was appointed this Monday in Paris, best player of the first female league season by the Women’s Professional Football League (LFFP). The current best scorer in the championship with 18 achievements succeeds the prize list at the Malawite attacker of Olympique Lyonnais, Tabitha Chawinga, crowned last year while she was playing at PSG. Clara Matéo, 27, is ahead of two players from Olympique Lyonnais, who hides at the head of the championship, but who was eliminated Sunday in the Champions League semi-final by Arsenal: the Haitian attacker Melchie Dumornay and the American Lindsay Horan.
Clara Matéo and her teammates of the PFC, third in the championship behind OL and PSG, will compete on Saturday the final of the Coupe de France against PSG in Calais. They will find their Parisian neighbors in the first league play-off semi-offs on May 11. Not retained among the Bleues for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games by Hervé Renard, Matéo is experiencing this season a return in grace in selection with the advent of Laurent Bonadei.
-Soubeyrand Best Coach
Sandrine Soubeyrand, who directs Clara Matéo at the PFC, is designated, the best coach of the season and succeeds Sonia Bompastor, former Lyon coach, spent in Chelsea last summer.
Among the goalkeepers, the Chilean of Lyon, Christiane Endler resumes her supremacy after having let the title escape last year in favor of Nigerian Chiamaka Nnadozié, the last bulwark of Paris FC and who thus obtains her fifth Trophy of best goalkeeper. PSG also obtains a trophy thanks to its defender Ta Elimbi Gilbert, 19, crowned revelation of the season.
Seven Lyonnaises in the typical team of the season
The typical team of the season was also unveiled with seven OL players. PSG and PFC in place two: Christiane Endler (OL) – Ellie Carpenter (OL), Vanessa Gilles (OL), Wendie Renard (OL), Tara Elimbi Gilbert (PSG) – Kessya Bussy (Paris FC), Lindsey Heaps (OL), Damaris Egurrola (OL), Sakina Karchaoui (PSG) (Paris FC), Melchie Dumornay (OL)
