He had joined OGC Nice in the summer of 2019, only fifteen at the time. The young player preformed at the INF Clairefontaine, Reda Belahyane, has since shone under the colors red and black in the youth team. Today, while he celebrated his seventeenth birthday on June 1, he plays every weekend with the U19 Nationals or the reserve.
A start to the season where the young player shone, to such an extent that OGC Nice has just given him his first professional contract. The player is rather versatile within the Nice midfielder, he can evolve in 6, 8 or even in 10. He was also able to already know the professional world by participating in some training with the group. A squad that he dreams of joining during the season or in the years to come to make his first professional matches.
The reaction of the player and OGC Nice
OGC Nice, through its director of the training center, reacted to this contract signing on the club’s website: “We are at the beginning of a development. This first contract does not make him a professional player. The most important is the attitude and the professionalism he will show on a daily basis. We hope for him as for us, that it is the start of a great adventure. It is good that some young people measure the gap which separates them from the first team. The signing of Reda also makes it possible to send a message to his comrades of the center: At will, we can considerably change our game and its characteristics to adapt them to the football of tomorrow, more and more focused on fighting spirit, aggressiveness and intensity that we put in the sessions and in each gesture, both offensive and defensive. “
The player for his part expressed his pride for this first contract which is anything but an end in itself: “It is a real pride for me to sign this first professional contract with OGC Nice, even if I am aware that it is anything but an outcome. I still have a large part of the way to go and I must continue to give my best on a daily basis. It is only through my involvement, on and off the field, that I will be able to achieve my dreams. I thank the whole club and will fight day after day to restore the confidence that been granted. “
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