Akim Zedadka, before Marseille – Clermont Foot: “It’s a match that excites us”
“When I was young, I went to the Vélodrome as an OM supporter. My favorite players were Ribéry, Drogba. Because when you’re little, you just want to score goals! “, smiles Akim Zedadka, become… lateral.
Ah, Marseilles! Speaking, it must light up stars in the eyes of the one who, for 3 years, has been wearing the Clermont jersey: “I am from the area (Pertuis, in the neighboring Vaucluse). I have my parents, my family, my friends in the sector, ”illustrates one of the leaders of the right flank of the Clermont team.
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Because you don’t deny your childhood desires, which sometimes can lead to certain problems between defense and attack: “It was one of my biggest areas of progress. I was lucid about it and the staff had noticed it too. We can think that the efforts made by Akim Zedadka are bearing fruit. For his trainer, Pascal Gastien, “he is progressing. He has to balance the team and I think he’s doing it better and better. »
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24 matches in… 24 Ligue 1 days
In fact, he now has 24 matches in… 24 days, 90 minutes each time, except in Montpellier and Nice, where he only played the first 85. In the end, with 70 more minutes in Bastia, there will only be during the 32nd of the Coupe de France, in Nîmes where, placed “at rest” on the bench, he will not have come into play.
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What exhaust more than one, right? “I had the chance to play all the matches, that means that I already have the coach’s confidence. But also that I can handle the workload at this level. Knowing that all the matches are very complicated, with a lot of intensity. It would therefore be lying to say that I did not draw on the energy, physically and mentally, too, since we play the maintenance. I had moments where I was a little more tired but overall I was quite linear,” Zedadka said.
“I can handle the workload.” By what arrangements? “We managed that with the staff: shorter training sessions, more recovery days after certain matches, but also, on the side, being even more rigorous in terms of lifestyle, sleep, diet, lots of cryotherapy, too… “
“When I’m not playing, I watch football, I read football, I learn about football! »
Akim Zedadka (Clermont Foot right side)
And to escape, at least in the head? ” (to smile) I have always been a football fan. So when I’m not playing… I watch football, I read football, I get information about football! But I’m also lucky to have people around me who know when I need to cut. »
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For the field, he does not intend to stop there: “We always have things to improve, but for a first season in Ligue 1, I am still satisfied with what I am achieving and, above all, with what we are collectively doing. Because we all pull ourselves up. »
Extension, selection…
What lead him to an extension of his lease at CF63? “We offered him something, last season, he wanted to wait. We are there, ”says the coach. The player, he eludes: “I did not look into the question. Every player wants to cross levels and progress. We will see if it is with Clermont Foot or by changing air at the end of the season…”.
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As for a place in the Algerian selection, removed from the first round of the CAN? “It’s been my choice to want to join the selection for quite a while. Now the coach makes his choices and his work, too…”
In the meantime, it’s Marseille: “In the locker room or elsewhere, I don’t feel the boys are stressed or taken up by the challenge, far from it. It’s a match that excites us, makes us want to. »
Jean-Philippe Beal