Handball: Leynaud is already fixed

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Amandine Leynaud, who will end her career in June, will join the staff of the Bourg-de-Péage club next season. The French international will be in charge of training the goalkeepers.

Leynaud is fixed. His career is not even over yet that Amandine Leynaud (36) already knows what his retraining will be made of. The emblematic French goalkeeper who currently plays for the Hungarian club Györ and will retire next June after having already said goodbye to the French team, at the end of the Tokyo Games crowned with the title of Olympic champions for Les Bleues and their goalkeeper with 253 selections in the colors blue, white, red (the only Olympic gold medal in career for Leynaud), will integrate once passed on the other side of the barrier the staff of the Bourg-de-Péage club.

The Drôme club, currently eleventh in the Butagaz Energie League standings, has informed via its coach Camille Comte that the 2017 world champion and 2018 European champion before lifting the Champions League with her club the following year would be in first place in charge of training the goalkeepers of the team. “She told me that she would be there two to three times a week to train the goalkeepers”, indicated Monday at the microphone of France Bleu Drôme Ardèche the coach of Bourg-de-Béage, a week after the new co-president Grégory Anquetil revealed the arrival of Leynaud within the organization chart.

Leynaud more than just a goalkeeper coach?

Comte, however, implied that the Ardéchoise could very quickly see his role expanded beyond that of simple coach of the goalkeepers. “I believe that her experience of the big clubs and of her career will be able to be passed on, that she is not just a goalkeeper coach but also that she can give her experience to everyone. What to restore the morale of the Drômoises who managed the small feat of staying this year while the financial worries of the club cost him a withdrawal of 18 points in total (9 in February and again 9 in March).

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