Three hundred and fifty young people are giving everything to join the Lozère Omnisports Center next year

Les jeunes footballeurs ont été mis dans des conditions réelles avec des matchs. Midi Libre – Lucas Manouvrier

The traditional detection day took place this Monday, May 20, 2024. Participants aged 11 to 17 showed their skills to join the football, mountain biking, tennis, table tennis or trail sections from the start of the 2024 school year .

Every year, Pentecost Monday is a big event for the Lozère (Col) sports center. A detection day is organized on this public holiday in order to fill the numbers in the football, mountain biking, table tennis, tennis and trail sections for the 2024-2025 school year. This Monday, May 20, 2024, 346 young athletes, including sixty girls, aged 11 to 17 who visited the Chapter sports complex to try their luck. With, in the end, around 200 of them being selected. "L’L’there were 327 registered and it’was already a record, enthuses Daniel Teissier, founder and president of Col for 25 years. We notice a growing reputation, which gets a little more pronounced each year."

A fun exercise to test the stability of mountain bikers on their bike. Midi Libre – Lucas Manouvrier

Matches in the afternoon

In the morning, the participants completed individual, physical and technical tests. Divided into small groups, they went through endurance workshops, sprinting, dribbling for footballers, etc. The afternoon was devoted to competition-type sports: matches for table tennis players, tennis players, football players; outings in nature for mountain bikers and trail runners. Parents responded by encouraging their children as close as possible to the fields. And at 2 p.m., a meeting was held for them to present the objectives and modalities of entry to the Col, at the Saint-Jean hall.

“A child who is less qualitative but who has the desire to progress will interest us”

Samuel Fau, sports director at Col for a year, explains the recruitment process and the profiles sought.

What is your role?

I manage the methodology at the football center level, on the content of training and on the directions we want to take. On the multi-sport center, my role is to support executives on specific skills so that things go as smoothly as possible in different situations. oacute;rent sections.

A day to detect profiles is very short…hellip;

Yes, and that's why we're dividing this day into several parts. One is focused on athletic and sport-specific testing, and another is related to sports. practice on played forms. We want to see the child in his practice but also on slightly more dissociated tests where we are able to to see the room for improvement he can have. We also attach great importance to "the hunger index" : is the child able to eat? give your best to evolve within the center?

The whole challenge of this day is therefore to identify potential ?

Yes, there is what the child will suggest today but we are attentive to that. the development that this young person can have. A child who is perhaps less qualitative but who really has the desire to progress will be of particular interest to us.

After this day, there is the commission to rule. How do you go about it ?

During the day of detection, each frame has to be monitored. specific sheets on the individual aspect. Continued à ça, we note all the results of the day, both on the individual and collective part. Then we meet with the president and the administrative director to choose. And the executives can be reached if we need more details on a particular young person.

Once the young people are caught, they do not have the right to release!

There is real individual monitoring from the start again in mid-August, whether on the sporting or academic aspect. We have different tables that concern attendance, attitude, motivation, sports content, etc. Just because we come home doesn't mean we have to relax. On the contrary, if they have the chance to enter, they must exploit their potential and maintain motivation.

Extra-sporting matters a lot

Throughout the day, the young people were supervised by 46 executives who took notes, which will be used to decide between the young people during the commission, Friday May 24. "There are three essential pillars to respect to enter Col, explains Yann Bonetto, administrative director for a year and a half. There is the sporting aspect and motivation, commitment and seriousness in schooling, and interpersonal skills. We are not interested in a talented child who is not polite or diligent."

Enter en Col allows a young person, educated from 6th to 12th grade, to practice their favorite sport almost every day, and thus progress quickly. But these places are expensive. And every year you have to start all over again. "Everyone takes the tests again, continues Yann Bonetto. This helps guarantee equality opportunities for all."

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