Formée au club, Sakina Karchaoui est restée six saisons au MHSC qu’elle a marquées de ses échappées belle sur l’aile. Midi Libre – RICHARD DE HULLESSEN
Arriving at the MHSC at the age of 13, Sakina Karchaoui made her mark on the history of the women's team, a defender inclined towards attack, a tireless dynamite, who stayed at the club until 2020 before joining Lyon and then PSG.
A special issue of 84 pages
Condensing half a century of history into 84 pages. This is the challenge taken up by the sports editorial staff of Midi Libre in this special issue on the 50th anniversary of the MHSC. Available in newsstands on December 11 for only 5 euros, this glossy magazine will make you relive the great moments in the history of the Montpellier club through our “50” who made the MHSC.
Players, coaches and builders, obviously, starting with this “Nicollin Saga”, told by Laurent and Colette, the wife of the late Loulou. A special edition packed with anecdotes and unpublished photos with an exclusive interview with Olivier Giroud.
Our special edition available on newsstands Midi Libre
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000Sakina Karchaoui was 18 when she signed her first federal contract with the MHSC, for three seasons; a discreet smile when she wore the club jersey. Born in 1996 in Salon-de-Provence, she arrived at the MHSC in 2009 to learn all her trades, and she already appeared as a rising star in French football, having been crowned French U19 champion the previous year with Montpellier.
Exceptional athletic qualities
Jean-Louis Saez was then coaching the D1 team and had already integrated her into the senior group the previous year. He remembers her as an “unclassifiable” player. “She was neither a defender nor an attacker and at the same time, she had support qualities above all the other girls. She was able to maintain her speed of execution and gradually increase her technical level because she is a workhorse who always stayed a quarter of an hour after the session to work on either her first recovery or the quality of her crosses. With the ability to eliminate, support, speed… I have rarely seen a player with athletic quality like her.”
“From your training, we instill something strong in you at MHSC”
The MHSC manager detects the ambition of the international who will stay three more years, until 2020, this time with the number 7 on her back, the one she also wears in the French team, before joining Lyon and then PSG.
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And for whom the return to Grammont, this time as an opponent of MHSC, is always a special moment as she explained in an interview on the official MHSC website on the eve of launching the season on September 20 against her training club.
The 2016 Champions League
The best years of her life, she declares while remembering the titles won in the youth, the qualification and epic in the Champions League (2016): “When we meet up, especially in the selection, with the former and current players of MHSC, we always come back to talking about this (family) spirit which makes the strength of this club […]. From your training, we instill something strong in you at MHSC: determination, never give up, always go all the way. That's the Paillade spirit.”
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