On can be called Cinderella – Cinderella in English – and not want to become a princess. Child, it is rather footballer that Cinderella Poidevin dreamed of being one day. Alas, there was no women’s section in the club of Saint-Martin-du-Bois (Maine-et-Loire), where she had made her debut, nor in that of the neighboring town of Segré. The girl was 12 and no longer allowed to play alongside the boys. She then fell back on an indoor and “manual” practice of football, open to both sexes: table football. Twenty-five years later, she still wears the colors of Segréen Table Football, a club of which she is also the president. Better: since 2019, she is also the captain of the French women’s table football team – “table football”, according to the name of the appointed French Federation.
Three times champion of France and five times world champion with the national selection, the young woman with the bronze wrist is one of the headliners of the World Cup of the discipline, organized in Nantes from June 28 to 3 July. His boss was “conciliatory”, she explains, giving him several days off to participate in it when the period is particularly dense. In life, Cinderella is a bus driver, a profession with a strong labor shortage. She drives groups to Puy du Fou, Futuroscope, La Rochelle… A week ago, she escorted Hellfest festival-goers from the car park to the entrance to the site. When her job with elastic hours and her two children aged 9 and 11 give her time, Cinderalla Poidevin trains in a room in her house in Louroux-Béconnais, where she has two “baby”.
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One of them, from the Bonzini brand (French manufacturer, approved by sports authorities), was bought from his uncle Régis Berteau, the founder of the Segré club. Foosball is a rather unique family story among the Berteau-Poidevins, almost a must. Three other of his uncles played in competition, as did his father, his mother, his younger sister, two cousins, his godmother, his godfather, his children… His son Corentin also plays in U13. Her specialty is” round trip “, technique consisting of rolling the ball under the feet of a player in one direction, then in the other, before shooting. The special envoy of World was able to measure its effectiveness – and congratulate itself on having avoided the fanny (when you end the game with a score of 0), with a 10-2 defeat.
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