EP 693 - Foot féminin à St-Laurent : la montée en Ligue 1 expliquée

·1 hr 8 min·5 clips

Sidi Mohamed Farah explains why a female player must feel part of the group to perform, while a male player must perform to feel part of it.

The episode begins with advertisements for Groupama insurance and Shopify. Host Félix Lajoie introduces the show with co-hosts Nilton, Julien, and Elias. The first segment is an interview with guest Sidi Mohamed Farah, head coach of CS Saint-Laurent's women's team, which recently earned promotion to Ligue 1 Québec via playoffs. Farah shares his background: he immigrated from Morocco, studied at Université de Montréal, and began coaching in 2014 after leaving a job at TELUS in 2016 to pursue soccer full-time. He explains his coaching philosophy, emphasizing that women's soccer requires building group cohesion for performance, whereas men's soccer drives performance to gain group belonging. Farah describes his ideal soccer as creating numerical superiorities, maintaining possession, and pressing intensely but pragmatically. He discusses the challenges of coaching in Ligue 2 with a short season and players leaving for U.S. colleges in July. The promotion was achieved with a young squad averaging 20.5 years, part of a club project involving 70 players across multiple teams. Farah critiques the lack of media valorization for women's soccer compared to men's, though praises CS Saint-Laurent for maintaining equal standards. He identifies key development barriers in Quebec soccer as structural and cultural, needing more open approaches and competitive environments. Farah highlights the importance of social media coverage for player recognition. The interview concludes with his admiration for Arsène Wenger. The second segment analyzes CF Montréal's recent MLS match, a dull 1-0 loss to St. Louis. The hosts debate coach Marco Donadel's lineup choices, particularly a midfield that underperformed, and the absence of key players like Mathieu Choinière and Nathan-Dylan Saliba due to international duty. They discuss new signing Iván Jaime's promising but isolated performance, goalkeeper Jonathan Sirois potentially losing his starting spot to Thomas Gillier, and the team's overall lack of cohesion. The episode ends with a preview of upcoming matches and thanks to listeners.

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