Interviews by Maria José Linares.
Nancy : Raphaël
Comment vous-êtes vous préparés pour le Minicrit ?
On a trois entraînements par semaine et on a fait plusieurs repas-foot où on essaie de partager des moments ensemble.
Quel est le plus grand atout de votre équipe ?
Le mental.
Quel campus est votre plus grand adversaire ?
Il y a 8 équipes au Minicrit et 7 adversaires.
Euram : Alex Pliskin
How did you prepare for the minicrit?
We had a lot of small drills. The key importance of preparing for the Minicrit is that you’re really craming a lot of work in a short amount of time right before the Minicrit, so you need to teach only a subset of small things, around four or five things, and so we made sure to teach spreading the game and playing some lovely football passing around the ball. So that’s what we did six days before and we’re ready to go.
What do you think is your team’s biggest strength?
I think our team’s biggest strength is when we decide to play relaxed and we start turning the ball. We create some really fantastic actions and we can launch our attackers that are very fast, and they score great goals.
Who do you think will be your toughest opponent?
Well, I’m going to speak for the poules because I think about one game at a time. Our next opponent is Nancy, so that will be our toughest opponent, and then every opponent after that will be tougher and tougher.
Is there any message you would like to share?
I love this campus, I love you guys, and we’re here working for you guys to win this for you. We’re at home and we’d love to bring home the trophy for the first time.
Euraf : Florian Bobin
How did you prepare for the minicrit?
We tried to build a team up during the last few months and it has been hard because usually in Euraf we’re less numerous so it’s always difficult to construct a complete team, but we have tried to be as consistent as possible over the last few months and weeks. And as usual, we always train for about a week, every day before the competition starts.
What do you think is your team’s biggest strength?
I’d probably say the spirit inside the team. We have good individual players and we have a decent collective team. The real strength of the team is our team spirit.
Who do you think will be your toughest opponent?
We are playing against the Eurams, and they are a very strong team, but I would say that our first game is probably the most important. We’re playing against Nancy first, and it will be the most decisive for the day.
Is there any message you would like to share?
Just that Eurafs are present at all these competitions and we also musn’t be undermined and underestimated. Together with the team spirit, we can do big things.
Menton : Ambroise Gouze
How did you prepare for the Minicrit?
All year long, three times a week, we had physical training with our coach. Even if it was not always easy, we knew how to find motivation. We tried to do our best here.
What do you think is your team’s biggest strength?
I would say our balance. There is a good equilibrium in the team.
Who do you think will be your toughest opponent?
For sure Paris, because they have many choices on their campus.
Is there any message you would like to share?
Menton will be always present, year after year. We will arrive to win this Minicrit once.
Le Havre : Marrec Selous
How did you prepare for the minicrit?
We’re a bit of an underdog team, so we focused a lot on spirit and team-building because the most important part of the game when you’re facing big teams is to be confident, and to be able to really get on the ball. If you don’t have a strong team spirit, if you don’t work together, you don’t have that confidence and you don’t stand a chance. We did running sessions together by the beach, we had football events together, dinners and team-building exercises. Also in a town like Le Havre, where it’s raining on a Saturday morning, we made everyone come to practice – even the people who didn’t play regularly. It’s really important to see everyone there for team cohesion.
What do you think is your team’s biggest strength?
Our character, our ability to press up the field. We play really strong, we attack the ball, and we don’t leave anything for chance.
Who do you think will be your toughest opponent?
We’re up against a lot of good teams so it’s difficult to say, but I think that Euram because it’s home turf for them, so there’s going to be that home advantage and it’s going to be hard to play against them.
Is there any message you would like to share?
I’d just like to say Jiāyóu, which means good luck and courage in Chinese.
Dijon :
Comment vous-êtes vous préparés pour le Minicrit ?
On a fait un ou deux entraînements par semaine pour travailler la technique.
Quel est le plus grand atout de votre équipe ?
L’équipe, justement, la solidarité.
Quel campus est votre plus grand adversaire ?
Dans notre poule, c’était clairement Paris, mais ce n’est pas gagné avec Poitiers non plus.
Y a-t-il un message que vous souhaiteriez partager ?
À mon équipe, qu’on reste solidaires ! Au reste de Sciences Po, malgré la compétition, soyons tous solidaires parce qu’on est tous camarades et on se retrouvera à Paris !
Paris : Jean-Baptiste, Maxime et Naël
Comment vous-êtes vous préparés pour le Minicrit ?
On a appelé pas mal de potes et on fait une bonne équipe.
Quel est le plus grand atout de votre équipe ?
La solidarité et Alex qui est soi-disant un première année.
Quel campus est votre plus grand adversaire ?
Le Havre. On m’a aussi dit qu’Euraf pourrait aller en finale…
Y a-t-il un message que vous souhaiteriez partager ?
Pensez à vos stages, pensez à vos masters. Vouloir gagner à tout prix, ca n’a pas de sens. Aussi, les formules de politesse ne perdent pas de point.
Poitiers : Diego Dueñas Isaac
How did you prepare for the minicrit?
Since the beginning of the year, we started with training for the Ligue Universitaire, which is the tournament of many universities in Poitiers. We prepared one week and a half before the Minicrit, every single day with practices, so we came really prepared.
What do you think is your team’s biggest strength?
Our biggest strength is what we call in spanish el coraje, which is the courage, the will to go for every single ball and never give up.
Who do you think will be your toughest opponent?
I think every single opponent is really tough, especially given the conditions in which we play now. It was really tough beating Menton, but we did it and we are really suffering the consequences of the conditions. But I think that all the teams are really tough, they are giving 100% at each game so it will be tough to beat every single one of them.
Is there any message you would like to share?
We will go at every single ball and make our biggest effort in order to go to the final and maybe win.
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