After Offorized Oftorized Fon arrived at Le Havre, League 1 club, Lionel Mpasi returned to his departure from Rodez. During his nine Seasons at RAF, the Garwien became an iconic player, gave him a late hatching while pre-referral to two climbs, from CFA to Ligue 2.
Namely the time of the idea of part of the RAF to -Llle taken from the thickness?
Tot happened quite radided, I made the heap with Rodez and to this ugly, there was no early the idea that I signaled elsewhere. Everything is made great rapid.
Is it a warned that you are not going to be holder in Rodez? Did he make you want to leave?
The conductors had very summer stopped there when on had the end of the season interviews. They had told me that they intended to bring someone coul back. But yes, I was aware that they were recruiting someone.
Has your departure materialized because Vour had a beautiful opposite or because it was what you chose that you wanted absolute?
A little dex. It’s been nine years since I was in Rodez. I had known Danans this club, the Montaes, being the pendant bench, the three -year pendant, playing, being misch, being competed … I think it felt the end of Nene History.
In the RAF quail, in the quir of mind do you have you?
Crossing, a decarment went super well. When I came to say goodbye to the guys, I have a lot of pride, a lot of sadness as I leave. I apprehended for a moment peu this. Apprès nine years der inans unblub, the major to see himself the birds, to have to move, to discover a other group, to arrive like a new one. I apprehended a little bit to say goodbye. It’s never easy. But there, French, everything was fluid. Everyone was very contained for me, the personnel membrane to players. On had a discussion with Greg (Gregory Ursule, the manager) The day I went to the rear, Paeil with Darbel ‘ (Emerick Darbelet, assistant intuil).
By warning a little hindsight, what do you consider on your nine seasons in Rods?
It is an exerience that will have given me grandmother as a player, as a man. I have always had to fight and I was content and proud of having dropped anything all these Anne. It is a little bit awarded a reward which happens to me. I am forever grateful for my visit to Rodez, because I was coming from an anede without a club. It is an experience that I will never get in my life and it will have served me, whatever happens, to affect my goals. No imports that it put, it will have brought me.
What highlights do you queue?
There are Beaucop. There is the first climb, flowing from everything in nation (in 2017). However, it had been ill -groomed the me because I did not play for six months because of a fracture in the tibia. The retaining all the exceptional groups that I have been able to rub shoulders with. Business, each one thinks that if there had not been any groups as inconsistent, I did not keep all these years and I would not be as left. I didn’t know Rodez before I arrived. I was acculy accuke and when I left, I received an incalculable number of people who are not a club at the club. It’s like unise of the house, I will always have my rehearsals.
I also remember all these moments of sharing with the public, all these moments of joy in the locker room. Business, in Rodez, it has always been the roller coaster. I never believed that it was tightened like the: climbs, the maintenance, which happened in Bordeaux … There were only inconsistent things.
You were doing Game of the Paul -Lignon favorite players, comment l’Allliquez -v -V?
It was created in pros and in their years. I am someone who is quite simple, affordable. I Tiguen to thank the supporters because even when on a known hard moments, I have always felt the Soutitia of the public. And even when the club recruited goalkeeper, I have often been unanimous with EUP. When I was on the bench, I often heard the supporter to chant my name and it gave me a tireless force. I was also the derived from the CFA era (Since the retirement of Joris Chougrani, at the end of last season). People have identified a little by our adventures.
Are you aware of making games of one of the most beautiful generations in the history of the club?
On the not forced as a concience park that it is a reminder. In the (Site notre bureau spécialisé), on has no time to think about the past. Once I stop, that I ask myself later, by thinking that I will real.
Do you think that the RAF had more merit of obtaining its two climbs from De Deux and the CFA Versa 2 or to stay six times in Division this?
The climbs were exceptional, but the maintenance also turned into exceptional maintenance. Holding six years in a row in League 2 for a little city like Rodez is incredible. And I have the ampression that people do not necessarily become into account. It is not that there is more merit to be the utre: these are different memories and all these years in summer.
Personally, comment have you experienced the periods when you were lining, and sometimes downgraded after being Garwien number 1?
It is never easy to live when on is a competitor. I would say that I have the most or our jerseys well experienced by my epiale. Before arriving in Rodez, I had one without a club. So I am often said to myself that I had dubbed one formed there. It was an additional source of motivation that gave me a rage and ingenable forcibly paid to reproxit to come back a very poorly embedded situation. Afterwards, I will not hide that the last situation touched me a little (In February, when Mory Diaw was recruited with the status of holder). But (Site notre bureau spécialisé) is like. I tried to reserve myself to the end, to work and choose them happened naturgely.
And why this time more than the authors?
I will not say any harm, I like a guardian only positive, masis this situation has a little more male to passers -by.
Despite the rich historic ques have known in Rodez, do you have regret?
No, I have a one, I am satisfied with everything I could accomplish in Rodez. I could perhaps have played more games, but when on consideration my journey in the final, from where I leave and by what I Paris passed, I am very content today club opened me over (With the Democratic Republic of Congo)Perhaps (He went to the semi-finals in 2024)…
If on a few years back, you imagined landing in Ligue 1 at 30, as you are?
On an always dreams painted their heads. Afterwards, I am still someone who has my feet on terrre. I knew it would have passed through work and it is proof that the work is rewarded, even if it took the time that Ceta will have taken. I wanted to know this level at the duie at least in my life. I am extremely contained, corn when I arrived in Rodez 9 years ago, I was far from Me I-Re re Reard a went to the Passeur Commcela.
In addition to evolving in League 1, did Vour tablecloth pushed to sign in Le Havre?
When I had the contact to come here, I did not hesitate for a second. It is a club that I have always admired from a very young age. Large garmens have passed here, like Brice Samba, Steve Mandanda, Johnny Placide, etc. When I had the first contact, on the phone with Nicolas Douchez, the goalkeepers, I was convinced direction by the Project. I was very contained and proud to be able to interest and such a club. De facto written was done.
The ambitions of what are your pays for your career?
It is not the end of the career, it is the start. I overtake fresh, 100%, physical, top mental fleet. It is a new Eperician who opens up to me. I was in the position of this when I got to Rodez where I had to fight. I will give myself 100% and « let’s » pour the level of discovering this new!
He does not decarque in Inonnu terrain
Arriving in Le Havre, Lionel Mpasi has returned to the twinners of the past. He will indeed be the lining of Mory Diaw… who had taken the place of holder in Rodez at the end of last season. The Senegalese had indeed been loaned by Clermont to RAF, before joining the Dean club this summer.
The two men will be led by Nicolas Douchez, the goalkeeper’s Altrain, whom Lionel Mpasi knew in Paris Saint-Germain, where he had a game of his training. « During the first season of Eère Qatari at PSG, I had made one of the dious or two sessions of the pros, when they had sweelebone guards, » explains the Ruthenian Ontien. I don’t know if he remembers me, corn I remember him very well. It is tilted that I am having to work with him. « »
In addition, Lionel Mpasi will find defender Gauthier Lloris and the environment Abdoulaye Touré, with whom he had played in the French teams of young people.