Selma Bacha may have played very regularly with the best team in Europe since the 2017-2018 season (23 games and 2 goals that year), she had to wait until Monday to finally have her chance with the France A team. In the professional group of OL since the age of 16, and crowned three times, both in D1 and in the Champions League, the lateral tonic has just been elected best player of the month of October in the championship of France.
Her positioning higher on the pitch, since Amel Majri’s serious knee injury, allows the 21-year-old left-hander to be decisive, as her two assists have further proven during the D1 clash against PSG ( 6-1). Corinne Deacon was present at Parc OL that evening, but she had initially not retained Selma Bacha in the list of the Blue which will face Kazakhstan on November 26, then Wales on November 30.
It was the ankle injury of Parisian (and ex-Lyonnaise) Sakina Karchaoui that allowed the promising left-hander to join the Blue group on Monday at Clairefontaine. Selma Bacha relishes her first call: “It’s a childhood dream and making it happen is beautiful. I don’t have the words. You have to savor it. I think I can bring my quality of center and my aggressiveness ”. Its take-off at the international level took time, but it could be spectacular, from Friday (9:10 p.m.) in Vannes.