With Quentin Leroux, Fabrègues can count on an instinctive player to challenge Trélissac

Quentin Leroux fait l’unanimité au sein des clubs où il a évolué. AS FABREGEUES

Arrivé cette saison à Fabrègues, l’ailier est un élément important de l’ASF, hôte de Trélissac, ce samedi 6 janvier (13h) en 32e de finale de Coupe de France.

When we discover Quentin Leroux, we realize that we are dealing with a young man of 26 who takes care of his appearance. Clean and distinguished, just like on the field. A diligent and efficient player with the ball at his feet who does not attempt “the nice gesture to amuse the gallery”, reports Maxime Teissier, his coach at Avenir Foot Lozère (AFL) between 2021 and 2023. This the latter "strongly regretted his departure" at the end of last season, "a quality player that I appreciated on a human and sporting level".

A group of 18 players, three absent

For the reception of Trélissac-Antonne Périgord FC, AS Fabrègues coach Laurent Scala called together a group of 18 players: Bouchité, Moles – Zaghar, Boumali, Besse, Diakhoumpa, Caumet – Meschel, Rico, Pastorel, Theet, Drizi – Cheranti, Leroux, Ouabi, Naili, Torregrossa and Le Moigne. Note the absence of three elements of the team playing in R1: Guilaine (suspended), Hannouche (shin) and Wagner (appendicitis).

Wishing to "change environment", the native of northern France was approached by Fabréguois goalkeeper Steven Bouchité after the championship match in Mende during the previous year. For his first season under the Hérault colors, he quickly became an important guy in the team's offensive landscape, underlines Laurent Scala, his current coach. He puts the team on track." Positioned as a left winger, Leroux has the particularity of having played in all the forward positions, one more weapon within the group.

Training with Boulogne in National

"I picked him up in Onet-le-Château in R1, it’s a profile that interested me, very good technically, capable of scoring, remembers Franco Vignola, AFL coach in 2018-2019. He is small but he knew how to position himself in space." A technical and quick player on his first catches of the ball, "he has a complete range in his dribbling and elimination skills, he’s a natural dribbler who destabilizes", continues Maxime Teissier.

His ball touch ? "I think it’s innate, explains the main person concerned. When I was younger, I would come home and play in the garden. Over time, you improve your qualities. I grew up with Zidane and my idol Cristiano Ronaldo." Everything is explained a little or almost for this Real Madrid fan. "I'm an instinctual player, I'll never think about what I'm doing. Effective action is essential in football. A leg pass or a roulette is an effective gesture if it is done well in the direction of the game, I like doing it,” explains Leroux.

Behind him on the field, he is fed by the left side Slimane Boumali with whom the connection is going well. "He has very good support, good relaxation, good agility, our understanding would be better on better ground (in reference to the quality of the Fabrègues lawn, editor's note)", he concedes- il.

For Fabien Dagneaux, his coach between 2019 and 2021 with the US Boulogne reserve team in N3, he was "slowed down in his momentum" during the health crisis. He is convinced that he could have "passed milestones" while he was training with the first team, a resident of National. Facing Trélissac (N2), this Saturday, Quentin Leroux has the opportunity to show that he still has the level to progress higher.