The 26-year-old midfielder symbolizes the success of RC Lens, current Dolphin of the PSG in the championship. The Northern Club faces Olympique Lyonnais Saturday night.
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All good surprises have an end. But, as far as Lens Racing Club is concerned, this denouement continues to be repulsed. Promoted in Ligue 1 a year and a half ago, after a morose decade spent mainly in the elite’s antechamber, the Northern Club has foiled all the predictions by now at the top of the year 2020-2021, Letting escape a qualification for a cut of Europe only on the last day (seventh final place).
This season, blood and gold pursue on their momentum. At an hour to challenge Olympique Lyonnais (OL) outside, Saturday, October 30, Lens finds himself dolphin of Paris-Saint-Germain (PSG) after eleven championship days.
The coach, Franck Haise, is the driver of a perfectly oiled bolide whose engine is called Seko Fofana. Capable of breaking lines by his riding ball at the foot, the 26-year-old midfielder has just been elected best championship player in September.
“I was told that I was crazy”
By signing in Artois in the summer of 2020, after four seasons in Udinese, Italy, the Ivorian International surprised his world. What was going to do in a club just promoted in Ligue 1, while Atalanta Bergamo offered him the opportunity to play the Champions League?
“I thought for a long time, I imagined here and not elsewhere. I saw myself in the project”, justified in the team the Player from 20 e Arrondissement de Paris, who also wanted to get closer to his family. “Even when I was trying to explain my reasoning, I was told that I was crazy,” said Seko Fofana at So foot.
The story has given him reason, both collectively and individually. Since the beginning of the season, the environment is entrusted with the captain’s armband. “This has given him more confidence and also the responsibilities he wanted to take,” says his coach.
Go where we do not expect it, for Seko Fofana, it’s almost a trademark. In January 2013, at the time he shone in the youth categories of the France team, the 17-year-old boy chose to make the big jump leaving FC Lorient to join Manchester City. Within the Nursery of the Sky Blues, it is evolving a season under the orders of Patrick Vieira. Lack of perspectives in one of the richest clubs in the world – at the time not as flamboyant as under the era Pep Guardiola, but already provided in Stars – Seko Fofana must resolve to Fulham, in Second English Division (2014-2015), then at the Sporting Club of Bastia, Ligue 1 (2015-2016).
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