From Quimper to Joué-lès-Tours via the Michel-Pelchat gymnasium. For seven days and its trip to Finistère, the Bayard Argentan has been following a hellish pace. Three Pro A matches before a fourth, this Tuesday evening, against Poitiers. Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Tuesday… In seven days, the Argentanians have played more than half of their matches since the start of the season. “I have never experienced such a sequence, admits Antoine Mast, the Ornais coach. It’s pulling, I hope the girls won’t be too burnt out. »
“It’s the clubs that pay the players…”
Because this sequence at a hundred miles an hour also says a lot about the balancing act which has been that of the Pro A championship for several years. Cramped into a calendar overloaded with other national and international dates. “It’s the clubs that pay the players…. Of course they need to score points at international level and I understand that, recalls Antoine Mast. But it is not normal that it is the clubs which suffer so much from the situation. All schedules must be respected. »
For a structure like Bayard Argentan, hosting two Pro A matches in less than a week is not trivial. “At a minimum, ten volunteers are mobilized to prepare the room, and the meals immediately afterwards. And these are people who work on the side and who participate in regional or departmental championships on the weekend. »
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Scheduled for November 26, the trip to Saint-Denis will be postponed to January. This time, nothing to do with calendar overload. The two clubs having made arrangements since Cléa De Stoppeleire, selected to compete in the Mixed Team World Cup, which takes place from December 1 to 8, will then leave with the Blues for the start of the rally.
ARGENTAN: Wang (Chi, n°25), De Stoppeleire (n°59), Sterner (Aut, n°75).
POITIERS : Yuan (n°1), Wu (All, n°16), Todorovic (Ser, n°34), Ramirez (Esp, n°51).
