The success of Raphaëlle Tervel, in , masks the lack of female coaches in French handball

Raphaëlle Tervel, coach of the women’s handball club, during a match against the Norwegian Vipers Kristiansand, in Brest, September 7, 2024. GUILLAUME SALIGOT / WEST- / PHOTOPQR / MAXPPP

The record of Brest Bretagne Handball (BBH) is, for the moment, immaculate: no defeat in seven matches since the start of the French women’s championship, the Butagaz Energie League. A momentum that the Finistère club will try to continue, Saturday January 4, at 8 p.m., against Stella Saint-Maur Handball, a team from Val-de-. The fact remains that the BBH is not only shining on the field this season. It is one of the rare clubs in France to be coached by a woman, Raphaëlle Tervel, supported by her assistant Sandrine Mariot.

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Of the fourteen teams making up the first division, three are led by a female coach (besides Brest, Plan-de-Cuques and Saint-Amand-les-Eaux) and there is only one of the thirteen teams in the second division (Clermont- Ferrand). “The observation is almost the same today as when I started my career, almost twenty years ago”deplores player and former French international Allison Pineau. “We’re behind schedule, that’s for sure.concedes Nodjialem Myaro, who has chaired the Women’s Handball League for eleven years. But it is a general delay, which we also find in other countries. »

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