During the Jean-Michel Aulas era, Olympique Lyonnais sometimes did not hesitate to sign major players from PSG, such as Kaci, Dali, Hamraoui, Houara, Seger or more recently Christiane Endler and Sara Däbritz. Each time, the blow was double in D1 women: the reinforcement of OL, absolute ogre with 16 titles of champions of France and 8 crowns in the Champions League since 2007, and the weakening of the Parisian rival. The Parisian reveals Thursday that Lyon will do it again this summer by signing Kadidiatou Diani.
After six seasons at Paris Saint-Germain, the one who has just been voted best player in the championship during the FFF Women’s D1 Trophies was coming to the end of her contract. “I think a lot of things have to change at PSG, explained the 28-year-old striker to AFP in February. I don’t feel like we’re considered the way we should be. It’s complicated to project yourself in these conditions. “We therefore felt for several months that the international tricolor was not going to extend in Paris.
The perfect reinforcement, after the injury of Cascarino and the departure of Macario
And all the more so because of the Hamraoui-Diallo affair, the management of the Parisian club no longer wished to deal with the adviser and companion of Kadidiatou Diani, César Mavacala, also adviser to Aminata Diallo. In the summer of 2020, OL had already tried to convince the key player of Les Bleues, established Thursday in Ireland (0-3) by Hervé Renard for the preparation match for the next World Cup (from July 20 to August 20). ). Injured in the collarbone on March 30 in the quarter-finals of the Champions League in Wolfsburg, “Kadi” Diani played the last of his 168 games in the Parisian jersey that day.
The player recently announced that she wants to settle her personal future before leaving for the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. We will therefore very quickly have the official confirmation of this choice which will upset the forces present in women’s D1. Deprived for several months of their international Delphine Cascarino, seriously injured in the knee, and after the departure of their young American Catarina Macario to Chelsea, OL therefore signed the biggest blow possible by recruiting the top scorer of the last D1 season. The Michèle Kang era, the new boss of OL women, is therefore opening up at best with this XXL reinforcement from the Parisian rival.