Faraj Benlahoucine, Media365, published on Sunday September 29, 2024 at 10:40 p.m.
Goalkeeper Cléopatre Darleux has not drawn a line under the end of her career. At 35 she returned to Metz, thirteen years after her first stint with the Dragonnes.
After eight years spent in Brittany, Cléopatre Darleux is no longer a Brest player. The 35-year-old international goalkeeper was not extended at the end of her lease in Finistère. Beyond her age, synonymous with the twilight of her career, she played very little during the last two years, the fault of a severe concussion keeping her from the field from January 2023 to March 2024. However, these elements do not have not cooled Metz who signed up the former Messina until the end of the 2024/25 season. She already played there between 2009 and 2011 and won four trophies including a French championship in 2011.
“I am happy to return to the Metz club, to spend one last season in one of the best clubs in Europe is a challenge that I wanted to take on, I can’t wait to discover the team and meet girls that I really appreciate, also working with Manu (Mayonnade, editor’s note) was a motivation for my arrival” commented the principal interested following the announcement of her arrival in Moselle Among the Dragonnes, Cléopatre Darleux will reunite with several teammates from the French team with whom she was decorated with the silver medal at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in August. .
In addition to Léna Grandveau and Alisson Pineau who were also recruited after Paris 2024, Chloé Valentini and Sarah Bouktit have already worked with the Blue goalkeeper. This will nevertheless have to earn its place within the strong squad of the reigning French champions. Hatadou Sako has left but Cléopatre Darleux will have to face competition from Camille Sinceet and the Hungarian Zsofi Szeremey.
