Paris (AFP)
Former French handball international Camille Ayglon will end her career at 36 on Sunday after the last match of the season in Nantes, she announced Thursday.
"It was important for me to mature the decision, to be sure of it and also to live a season by telling myself that it was the last (...). This is what allows me, today , to be a thousand percent serene and sure of my decision that it was indeed the last, ”explained the right-back on his club's website.
"I never thought I would have the career I had. Already at the start, I never thought of making a career as a top athlete. I also know all the work and the sacrifices that it took of me but I realize how lucky it is to have a career like that, ”she added.
Selected 270 times for the French team, Ayglon won the 2017 world title and Euro 2018 with the Blue.
She was also part of the France team, Olympic vice-champion in Rio in 2016.
In a club, she spent most of her career in Nimes, from 2003 to 2008 and from 2010 to 2016, with visits to Metz (2008-10), Bucharest (2016-18) and since 2018 in Nantes with her record. a title of champion of France (2009), two titles of champion of Romania (2017, 2018) and the European League at the beginning of May with Nantes.
Ayglon, married to the former handball player Guillaume Saurina, has a retraining project to work in "athlete support": "I would like to be the person I would have liked to meet about fifteen days ago. 'year of that. To try to help them in wealth management, financial investment, real estate investment, "she explained.
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