Ajaccio-Fréjus in the final, it is no surprise the poster that one could imagine between the leader and the second of the regular phase. On the other hand, you will, on Friday, receive first. Isn’t that ultimately an advantage, especially if there is a success at the end?
There is a pros and cons, but as far as I am concerned, I consider that it is good to attack at home. That said, it will be necessary to win if we want Jaccio to evolve on Friday after with maximum pressure at home. We will have a lot with us, but at the same time we will benefit from the support of our audience. I especially hope that we will be able to make the best possible match. We will then do the accounts at the end, without projecting ourselves too much.
Has your team completely reassured you during the first two rounds of Play-offs?
Yes, even if it can do even better. There are two weeks left to refine the last details as much as possible and finish writing the story of this beautiful season. We are very happy to have been able to climb in the final and now that we are there, we obviously have the ambition to go to the end.
Yet led to Illac (4-9) in Tie-Break, your set managed to win (13-15). Is it significant of mental strength and good physical shape?
On the physical level, we are ready with very good preparation under the leadership of our preparer Thomas Guillaumond, who really did an excellent job. I also have the chance to lead a group of boys who, whatever the situation, does not give up and continues to believe it. After (laughs), it goes without saying that it will be better to avoid being in this situation against Ajaccio.
Like you, Ajaccio relies on a big quality of service. Is it ultimately the promise of an open and spectacular double confrontation?
Beyond the offensive sector that determines everything, it will indeed be the key sector allowing in particular to answer the question: how are we going to be able to ask our Block Defense organizations? Afterwards, as always, it is the one that will most often put the ball on the ground that will have the last word.
“The Ajaccio bench is a huge asset”
What have you noted at your opponent through his disputed matches against Saint-Quentin and Martigues?
He knew, in difficult times, find the solutions to be successful each time to succeed, without trembling too much, to make the difference. Having an extensive workforce is a precious asset. These play-offs have shown that the GFCA had the respondent on his bench.
-It remains on a final lost painfully in the gold set. Can this experience represent an advantage or can it constitute, given this memory, a handicap for him?
It remains experience and it is precious. The learning process is always dotted with errors and this could therefore help it avoid making the same fault again. On the emotional level, it will also allow him to project himself well in the event.
Isn’t the hypothesis of playing an accession to League A on a gold set a heresy?
Sportingly, this is not what can enhance a champion. Afterwards, it will be, if necessary, the last step to access. We have no choice but to deal with this rule.
Fréjus was in the mid-1980s and in the early 90s a big French club, finalist of the Champions League, before collapsing in 1992. Does the prospect of putting his name back on the elite map aroused an additional craze and motivation for this final?
Fréjus remains a Volleyball Cultural Basin. I took over the club in N2 twelve years ago and there was already this desire to see the club of its ashes are reborn. There is a prestigious past and it would be a great accomplishment to review his name appear in Marmara Spikeligue (name of the League A since 2023). My team managed to arouse interest and even if the accession was not an objective displayed as is the case in Ajaccio, there is always a competition with the ambition to win it. We will play it all the way.
Du côté du gfca, des on sent onnds positive
Managing the physique at the rate of a bodybuilding session in the morning and carrying out a lot of tactical work from a video preceding training at the Palatinus has been, since Monday, the line of conduct on which the Ajaccian collective is preparing calmly and without revealing any particular pressure.
She should go up tomorrow, where the eleven players selected will settle down at the end of the morning in Fréjus and do a session at 4:30 p.m., in a Sainte-Croix room, of which they keep the memory of a big fight of 2:30 ‘fought and won at Tie-Break on February 22.
“We know what to expect, faced with an opponent who will probably take all the risks in the service. Our success in Martigues without leaving too much forces has brought back confidence and demonstrated that when we manage to produce our game, we are able to perform outside as was the case twice in Saint-Quentin and last Friday”estimated yesterday the coach Frédéric Ferrandez, for whom it will be the fourth final of Ligue B after that lost last year, but two others won in 2007 then, 2009 supported.
