Corinne Diacre will forever remain a pioneer. The former central defender was indeed the first woman to officer at the head of a male professional team. And ten years later, despite its good results on the bench of Clermont, it is still a unique case.
Originally, Claude Michy, president of Clermont, had appointed another woman, the Portuguese Helena Costa. Forced to find a spare solution and obviously determined to appoint a woman, the Auvergne leader therefore set his sights on Corinne Diacre, whose name was blown to her by Sonia Souid, the former Miss Auvergne from Clermont-Ferrand who has become a footballer agent .
While she takes out her autobiography “Touche not my qi”, the one who did not hesitate to denounce the harassment of which she was the victim from Christmas Le Graët also regretted the reception reserved for Corinne Diacre. “” It is true that in Clermont, she does not do less well than her predecessors, but we still made her drool. It was said that she was badly frozen, that she didn't smile … Would we do that with a male coach? I don't believe ”, she recently entrusted to So foot.
The ingratitude of Corinne Diacre pointed out
However, Sonia Souid regrets Corinne's lack of commitment deacon in the cause of women. “The main difference between us is that I am a woman who wants to help women and that, in my opinion, Corinne Diacre does not have that in her. She knows who allowed her to sign at the club, and I would have liked her to close to me once in office, that I can chat with her, to offer things as an agent. It would have allowed us to have a mutually enriching relationship ”, she added.
And the Clermontoise gave a layer in the closer columns. “All she has accomplished is remarkable, especially since she then became a selector of the French Women's team. I only regret that she has never recognized my work ”she blown.
According to Sonia Souid, the situation has hardly changed for women in football. “At the dawn of my 40 years, when I look in the rear view mirror over the past fifteen years to evolve in football, I tell myself that things have not changed,
she explained in The mountain. We are still 5 % of women's agents. Since Helena Costa and Corinne Diacre, in 2014, who was the second woman to obtain the state certificate from professional coach, there are hardly more, perhaps four or five, in 2025. It advances very little. »»
