Haitian Soccer Star Arrives In Europe To Pursue Pro Contract

Haiti’s rising soccer star, Pierreline Nazon, has her nation’s assist as she arrives in Europe seeking to pursue an expert profession.

On Oct. 6, Nazon, 18, arrived in Seville, Spain, to start a 10-week skilled tryout with a number of top-tier golf equipment, together with FC Sevilla and Viimsi JK in Estonia, based on Haitian Occasions. A standout from Haiti’s U-20 ladies’s nationwide crew and a rising star from Port-au-Prince’s Affiliation Sportive Tigresses, Nazon will practice, compete, and be evaluated by scouts in Spain and throughout Europe throughout an internship working by way of mid-December.

“This marks a important step in her profession,” AS Tigresses stated in a Fb announcement. “Already thought-about one of the vital promising younger gamers of her era, Pierreline Nazon has distinguished herself each nationally and internationally.”

Nazon is raring for the possibility to compete on the large stage, having skilled with males in a summer season futsal match in Pétion-Ville to remain in peak form for her European alternative. Earlier this yr, she missed an opportunity to coach with French powerhouse Paris Saint-Germain as a result of journey doc points and household issues.

Regardless of setbacks, restricted alternatives, and the continued disaster in Haiti, Nazon stayed targeted on reaching Europe to earn her first skilled contract and additional Haiti’s rising legacy in ladies’s soccer. She hopes to affix Haitians who’ve achieved skilled success overseas, together with Nérilia Mondésir (Montpellier, now Seattle Reign FC), Batchéba Louis (FC Fleury, now Birmingham Metropolis), and Melchie Dumornay (Stade de Reims, now OL Lyonnais). Nazon can be following within the footsteps of Lourdjina Étienne, her former AS Tigresses teammate and Haitian youth nationwide crew participant, who FC Fleury lately recruited.

“Each time a Haitian participant indicators overseas, it offers the individuals hope,” stated sports activities journalist Kesny Norzius. “It’s one of many few remaining success tales that also unite the nation. Pierreline Nazon, together with Lourdjina Etienne, is among the many most proficient gamers Haiti has produced in recent times.”

Nazon signed with AS1 sports activities company simply forward of her European coaching program.

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