2023-09-17 12:04:54
Sandy Baltimore, a season to shine once more with PSG and compete in the Paris Olympics
Absent from the last World Cup, Sandy Baltimore is in Hervé Renard’s list to start the Nations League. Talented but often singled out for her behavior, the player has the talent to finally become an executive for Les Bleues. It’s a great season with Paris Saint-Germain facing Bordeaux on Sunday (9 p.m.) on the first day of D1 Arkema.
In 2020-2021, Sandy Baltimore had everyone in agreement. For her first full season with PSG, the Colombes native scored 8 goals and 12 assists in the league. In December, she was selected by Corinne Diacre for the French team and scored a goal in her first cap once morest Kazakhstan (12-0). Simply dazzling.
Spotted in Taverny in U14, she joined PSG to be directly upgraded with the national U19s. No doubt: he was an immense talent. A left winger by training, she nevertheless went down a notch for two years and earned a nickname: “it was during a tournament, a player was missing and the coach put me in this position that I didn’t know at all , she explained in the columns of Onze Mondial in March 2021. After that, Pierre-Yves Bodineau (her coach at the time, editor’s note) told me that I was going to play left back. Everyone started to call me Serge Aurier, I apparently looked like him.” Enough to increase your playing volume before moving into D1 Arkema.
A championship title, a Euro in the shadows
Little by little, she became a full member of the professional squad as a winger and was named as the best prospect of the championship in 2019. If she did not win the trophy, she nevertheless earned the label of promise in become. An additional pressure that doesn’t seem to affect her: “I’m in another world, noted the one who sometimes admitted searching for words to express herself to journalists. I really don’t know how to explain it. I don’t calculate what can be said regarding me. Afterwards, of course, I have goals. It’s normal but without stress, I’m calm, I remain zen, I take pleasure in everything I do.”
At the end of the 2020-2021 season where she is this time crowned best hope, Baltimore is part of the Parisian attack trident in the company of Kadidiatou Diani and Marie-Antoinette Katoto who managed to overthrow the hexagonal hegemony of the Olympique Lyonnais. The future of French women’s football is blossoming in the capital. The one who scored a goal in the final of Euro U19 2019 won once morest Germany (2-1) in the company of Selma Bacha, Maëlle Lakrar, Melvine Malard, Naomie Feller and Vicki Becho is on an upward slope. In 2022, following having signed a new high-flying season with 4 goals and 13 assists in 22 D1 Arkema matches, she extends for two seasons. Obviously, she is participating in the Euro. Beaten by Delphine Cascarino, she played a handful of minutes once morest Italy (5-1), remained on the bench once morest Belgium (2-1) and started once morest Iceland (1-1) before disappearing from the radar for the knockout phase completed in the 1/2 final once morest Germany (2-1).
Heavy and disappointing last months
The quick and explosive little guy (1.56m) experienced a violent setback followingwards. At PSG, Georges Prêcheur warned her regarding the level of her performances: “when I arrived, we had a good discussion with her, recalled the coach. And when I analyzed last season, she was in difficulty. She had a very bad end to the season, certainly for perhaps particular reasons.” The Kheira Hamraoui affair had consequences and Baltimore squarely fought with the former Blaugrana in training before facing OL in April.
In competition with Lieke Martens, freshly arrived from Barça, the Swiss Ramona Bachmann and the sensation Laurina Fazer, she is positioned on the right to better fit on her left foot and provide density in the axis in the absence of Katoto, who has been injured for a long time. Knee. A new register that seemed to please Deacon when she had just selected her for the 2023 French Tournament, the last trial run before the World Cup: “she found playing time with Paris. When we have the possibility of “express and what’s more we do it well… That’s what she did at the end of 2022. She returns to the group, I hope with a lot of desire. She offers me a new possibility because Gérard Prêcheur “played a false foot. That gives me some ideas to disrupt the opponent. When Sandy goes inside on her left foot to strike, she performs quite well.”
If her statistics are far below her usual standards (5 goals and 5 assists in 21 matches), everything indicates that she will be in Australia. Except that in the meantime, captain Wendie Renard withdrew from Les Bleues, accompanied by Diani and Katoto and Noël Le Graët, Deacon’s main and even only strong ally, had to leave his post as president of the federation. Worse: at the beginning of March, she was sentenced to a fine of €1,500 and a 5-year suspended sentence by the Nanterre court following an attack on a friend.
Deacon’s successor, Hervé Renard does not call her up for the World Cup, even though Delphine Cascarino, injured in the knee, is out: “I am not going to comment on her season, because I only saw the end , other players seem more likely to be part of this list,” the new coach argued. However, he decided to recall it for the start of the Nations League once morest Portugal (September 22) and Austria (September 26), convinced by its very consistent Champions Trophy during which, despite the defeat once morest OL (1-0), she generated the most chances for PSG with a great ability to sow disorder in the opposing final third.
At 23, in his last year of contract at PSG, Baltimore has great ambitions with, in perspective, the Olympic Games at home. Now or never to take control of a previously very promising career.
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