Astride N’Gouan (Metz Handball)
It’s simple and it’s his trainer Emmanuel Mayonnade who talks about it best. “Astride is having the best season of her life, she has an incredible level of play. She is one of the reasons why I wanted to extend my adventure at the club. Beyond the player, she is a person of rare human quality. This start to the season is almost perfect (9 wins in the league and a second place in her group in the Champions League) for Astride N’Gouan and her Metz Handball teammates. The 30-year-old pivot is anything but foreign to this. His understanding and his complicity with his center-half Méline Nocandy or his rear Louise Burgaard are wreaking havoc in the opposing defenses. N’Gouan imposes his power and forms with the young Sarah Bouktit a most interesting duo. Will the 2017 world champion with the Blues extend the adventure in Moselle by one season? Everyone at the club very much wishes it.
Born in Saint-Denis
30 years
Handball
French Champion with Metz Handball (2019), 4th in the Final Four
Champions League (2019).
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Jordan Santos (UL Plantières)
His strike of more than thirty meters at the Wahbi Khazri during the seventh round of the Coupe de France on the lawn of Saint-Symphorien against the professionals of AS Nancy-Lorraine made him known to the general public. A superb and perfect shot of precision which came to lodge under the crossbar of the Nancy goalkeeper and gave the advantage to his team of UL Plantières (R3). The Messins finally came out with their heads held high against ASNL (3-1). “It’s a bit pretentious to say it looks like Khazri’s goal but I like it. It’s my best goal in my amateur career, that’s for sure. I will keep this great memory for a long time, ”commented number 10. Jordan Santos in the text, all in discretion and humility.
The epic of the Metz club trained by Richard Pagnat was beautiful for these boys and brought to light a whole club. Long live the Coupe de France for these beautiful moments.
Born in Metz
24 years
Football
Present in the 7th round of the Cup
from France with UL Plantières
(Regional 3) of which he is the captain.
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Yann Schrub (Athlé Sports Sarreguemines Arrondissements)
It is not a conspiracy. If Yann Schrub finds himself, as in October, in the list of three happy contenders for the title of sportsman of the month in Moselle, he owes it only to his performances. All the more remarkable in a sport as difficult as athletics, where one day without was enough to spoil six months of preparation.
On November 14, the 25-year-old Sarregueminois did not miss it. Quite the contrary. Outsider of one of the densest elite cross-country championships in recent seasons, Yann Schrub got everyone to agree, escorted by fiery legs and a first-class vista. After a few difficult months of training and small injuries that have come to interfere with his daily life, he is undoubtedly back in the spotlight. And, perhaps already, applying for the title of Moselle sportsman of the month of December… In nine days, it’s Euro cross.
Born in Thionville
25 years
Athletics
Vice-champion of the university world in the 5000m in 2019, champion
de France elite de cross 2021.
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