Paris (AFP)

The goalkeeper Thierry Omeyer, double Olympic champion with the "Experts", expects to feel "a lot of emotion" in the last game of his career that he will play Thursday at 42, with PSG handball against Cesson- Rennes in the French Championship.

Q: What are your feelings before this last match?

A: "I tried to prepare him like everyone I played during my 25 years of professionalism, I know there will be a lot of emotion, there will be my whole family, all my friends. followed during my career, I was already feeling it in recent games, there has been a lot of flashbacks throughout my career, I will try to enjoy every moment while bringing the level of requirement that I have always had. "

Q: What are you going to do from Friday?

A: "I'm going to continue to invest in my sport, with Paris Saint-Germain, I've been training for a few years to have the maximum skills for the future." I passed my coaching diploma two years ago. years and I did a training of sports club manager in Limoges that I will validate in September.I do not know if I want to immediately become head coach of a team.I graduated for the case where I would miss the adrenaline of the competition, which is for sure that I will stay close to the sporting part to help PSG grow, especially with the training center.We are refining the missions, it's going to be decided at the beginning of next season. "

Q: What made you a great goalkeeper?

A: "My character as a competitor, the hate of defeat that has always inhabited me, the desire to always surpass myself, to transcend myself, this requirement has always accompanied me, I have always tried to do everything I can to possible, including training, and the goalkeeper position is the one that suits me best because in this role we can never achieve perfection. "

Q: When did you say that your career had come to an end?

A: "It's after the title of 2008 Olympic champion in Beijing, when you are a top-level sportsman, it's the most beautiful thing, it's the universal title par excellence. is that every four years is watched by everyone Olympic champion, it is for life In 2012 in London it was also huge with all the French public who was there, with the whole family, all friends, it was great. "

Q: What has changed in handball since your first professional match with Sélestat in 1995?

A: "What changed was that when I started I played with people who worked during the day and who were going to train at night, so it's the professionalization of our sport. and it's linked, the best quality of training.Today the players are much better prepared, they are beefier, they jump higher, they shoot harder.The game goes much faster.

Interviewed by François BONTOUX

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