US Orléans lost to Sète (0-1) this Friday during the 31st day of National. A match to which Jimmy Halby-Toure, who has been treating pubalgia for more than a month, did not participate (the defender has not played since the draw at Bastia-Borgo). Guest of the 100% USO grandstand in Facebook Live on France Bleu Orléans, the right side still delivered his analysis on the performance of his teammates (from 4’22 in the replay). If he recognizes that “Sète showed a little more than Orléans“, the native ofEpinay-sur-Seine don’t forget to mention thecontestable arbitration during this meeting:defeat is bitter because of these mistakes“. But beyond the “debrief” of the match in Hérault, there was talk of the career of the 25-year-old player.
Author of a very good season (22 games, three goalsa decisive pass in National), Jimmy Halby-Toure is with Esteban Lepaul and Liamine Mokdad I’one of the revelations of US Orléans in the championship. However, he discovers this level, after four years spent at the lower level, in National 2, at Romorantine (Loir and Cher). A level he wanted to reach, but which was slow in coming, in particular because of the Covid-19 epidemic and its consequences on amateur sport (from 28’52). “In March 2020, I’m 23, it’s getting a bit late, the season is over, we don’t know when it’s going to resume, I thought it was going to be complicated. I was having good seasons as a full-back, but with the different stops we didn’t know where we were going, and yes, I was a little scared“, he confides.
Four years at the Angers training center
But “fortunately, there was the USO after“, smiles the defender, who says he felt “pride” when he signed in favor of the Loiretain club. “I was super happy, because I had only one objective: to climb the ladder. When I get the call, I’m super happy and want to be there. And very happy now“, completes the one who spent four years in the training center of the Angers SCO. If he did not sign pro during his stay in Anjou (from the age of 16 to 20), where he played in N3 with the reserve, Jimmy Halby-Touresaid to have understood “in hindsight“, that he “did not have the level to turn professional“. Hence his departure for Romorantinein National 2 (from 26’04).
In this 100% USO grandstand(the last of the season with an Orleans player, before receiving the coach Xavier Collins on May 2 then the President Philippe Boutron on May 9), the right-back also recounted his job change (from 23’15). Trained as an attacker, he finally back in defense during a match against the reserve of Saint Etiennewith Romorantin and has (almost) never left this position.
The show, with Joel Germainfootball consultant for France Bleu Orléans and Patrick Paumierhead of the sports department of the Central Republicis to be reviewed below.