![]() ![]() Under the guidance of Patrice Lair, Schelin says the club “levelled up”.Īfter losing on penalties in the 2010 Women's Champions League final, they were determined to go one further. Players like Le Sommer arrived to join a team that already featured legends such as Camille Abily, Sonia Bompastor, Elodie Thomis, Amandine Henry and Wendie Renard, to name but a few. I felt the club really wanted something and the president for sure, he was the one who was supporting everything.”īy 2010, the team had “everything that needed” and it was then that things really took off. It wasn’t left behind, but it was an ongoing process. “When I got there, it didn't feel like a professional environment at the time. Why not?' I wanted to go there and try it out. “I was like, 'okay, I can stay in Europe, in a good team, and they want to win the Champions League. “But they talked about the Champions League so much. That was all I knew,” Schelin tells Goal. “They played Umea twice and people said: 'Oh, that was a good team'. When Lotta Schelin, the former Sweden international who would be Lyon’s all-time top-scorer when she left the club in 2016, signed in 2008, the club was not the super-power it is today. It was only in 2004 that this club started its women’s section. ![]() It makes their humble beginnings even more incredible, too. It is dominance that makes them not only one of the best teams in women’s football history, but sporting history. What Lyon have achieved in the last decade is completely and utterly unprecedented. “If you told me that 10 years ago, I couldn’t trust you!” “Where the club is now, on the top of Europe, seven Champions League titles, it’s unbelievable,” Eugenie Le Sommer, who has won all seven of those titles, tells Goal. That’s not to say, though, that the dominance that has followed was anticipated. But they knew they wanted to stand at the top at the end and celebrate winning the Champions League – and they did.Įvery part of their success since – the seven European titles, their fifth in succession claimed earlier this year – can be traced back to those triumphs in 2010-11. They knew it would take everything they had. ![]() As Lyon pushed for their first-ever European title, they likened every part of their campaign to that awful, never-ending slope in the Graian Alps. As the season went on, that experience would become more than just an anecdote. ![]()
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