Euro 2022 football: Guadeloupe’s Sandy Baltimore, from PSG to the French team – Sports in Guadeloupe: football, basketball, swimming, sailing, handball, cycling…

The left winger of Psg, Sandy Baltimore will play his first major competition with the France A team, and will be, with Delphine Cascarino, one of the two Guadeloupe representatives at Euro 2022.

Born in Colombes on February 19, 2000 to Guadeloupean parents, Sandy Baltimore took her first football license at the age of 10 at the Cosmopolitan Club Ermont Taverny, after being encouraged by boys with whom she played in the playground.

Fan of Ronaldinho, she was contacted in 2015 by Pierre-Yves Bodineau, the youth coach of Paris Saint-Germain to join the training center and trained with the U19 team from her first season then with the professional group. .

Appearances in the league and in the Champions League from the age of 16

At only 16 years old, Sandy Baltimore trains regularly with the professionals of the capital club and made his first appearance in D1 in October 2016 against Metz by replacing Hawa Cissokho at half time during the victory of Psg (3-0 ).

She will also make her first appearance in the Champions League in the round of 16 against Lillestrom Sportslubb.

Best female hope in 2022

After a very good 2021-2022 season with PSG, where she scored 8 goals and 10 assists in the league, she was voted best female hope of the D1 season, as part of the National Union of Professional Footballers trophies ( UNFP).

First selection in the France A team at the age of 20

Arrived at the Bleues from the U17s, Sandy Baltimore went through all the categories of young people before knowing his first selection and his first goal in team A on December 1, 2020, during a playoff match at Euro 2022, against the Kazakhstan won 12-0 by Les Bleues.

Extension at PSG until 2024

Linked to PSG for four years since 2018, the year she signed her first professional contract, she extended until 2024 last May.

The French football team begins its competition this Sunday at 3 p.m. (Antilles time) against Italy, in group D. Match broadcast on TF1 and Canal+.

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