This Wednesday, at 2.30 p.m., the women’s section met in Bougival (Yvelines) for the official launch of the 2022-2023 season. Without Didier Ollé-Nicolle, who has still not been thanked by the club for lack of agreement, but with his future coach Gérard Prêcheur who was able to meet the twenty players summoned for medical and physical tests.
Apart from the logically absent internationals (Karchaoui, Geyoro, Baltimore, Diani, Ilestedt, Lawrence, Bizet, Bachmann, Martens), and Marie-Antoinette Katoto, who is awaiting surgery for her serious knee injury, many “young people” were from the recovery. But not Kheira Hamraoui.
While the midfielder was among those summoned beforehand, her name was finally removed from a second listing that she never received. It is therefore without her that the women of the Parisian club returned to the training center, obviously raising questions about her future.
Despite a contract that ends in June 2023, PSG no longer counts on Kheira Hamraoui and invokes, officially, sporting reasons for an international player (39 selections), passed by Lyon and Barcelona, and who has won the League of Nations three times. champions in 2017, 2018 and 2021. In reality, the experienced 32-year-old player is no longer in the odor of sanctity in the Parisian locker room.
Already dismissed from the group at the end of the season following a scuffle in training with Sandy Baltimore then Marie-Antoinette Katoto and Kadidiatou Diani, Kheira Hamraoui lived a turbulent season against a background of extra-sporting affair linked to his aggression. on November 4th.
Irreconcilable groups
Hearings have multiplied since, but without result. They implicated certain players and their entourage, such as Aminata Diallo, who remained in police custody for 35 hours without any charges being brought against her. Several executives of the team do not forgive him for his attitude with the investigators and no longer want to work alongside him.
In this difficult context for several months, Paris hopes to find a solution. Exit doors are studied, but the case is far from settled, especially since the player has the firm intention of going through with her contract. “The club has put measures in place to protect and help me. I am under contract with PSG until June 2023 and I am at the club’s disposal for next season, like all players under contract, ”she said in the columns of L’Équipe on June 15.
More than a month after this speech, it is outside the group that Kheira Hamraoui attacks the new season. A situation that cannot last forever.