After having carried out all of her player as a player at PSG and having worn the jersey of the French team 65 times, Laure Boulleau decided to hang up the crampons in 2018. A few months later, she started her retraining as a consultant on Canal+, where she still officiates to date.
Having become over the years a pillar of programs on the Round Ball of Canal+, Laure Boulleau had a complicated beginnings. She notably suffered many unjustified criticisms. In an interview with Orange, the 38 -year -old Clermontoise tells how she had to make a place in a very masculine environment.
“” When I stopped football, I converted to the media. I knew I was going to have to be demonstrated, like when I started football, with a fairly combative spirit. But also a lot of work to be able to impose myself in an environment where women did not have their place too “Said the former Parisian.
Laure Boulleau: “I was told that I had to go home”
“I know it was said that women had nothing to do in football analyzes, even more analyzing men, that I had to go home”added Laure Boulleau, who also returned to her debut in women's football. “” Women's football is a combat sport, necessarily it speaks to me. To arrive where we are today, we had to fight. (…) I felt the first difficulties when I started to switch to a more publicized life where I started playing for the French team or a 100% female club. I had to impose myself in an environment which was not very welcoming at first. »»
Still and always regularly targeted on social networks, the ex-left lateral recently received the support of Hervé Mathoux. “” Laure is sparkling, solar, she has taken a place really apart in the TV and football landscape in France, had first underlined the presenter of the Canal Football Club to The team. You can tease it, it reacts. On a set, for a host, it's nice because there is a respondent, and always with a smile. But she takes a lot of blows too. People still have trouble seeing a woman occupying a central position to give her opinion on football. »»
