LFH. Toulon - Brest, tonight (8 pm). Siraba Dembélé, the captain of the France team, completed the loop this summer by finding Toulon, she had left six years earlier.

Six years away from France, six years away from Toulon, "her heart club", she found this summer. Siraba Dembélé has finally returned to the fold, far from Randers (Denmark, 2012-2013), Skopje (Macedonia, 2013-2016) and Rostov (Russia, 2016-2018), far from Europe finally: she now fights for the maintenance with the Var club.

"I still enjoy it, even if we play the bottom of the table (Toulon is 9th in LFH, with three wins and six defeats), explains the native of Dreux. I still have the impression of progressing. You have to approach things differently: it's not just a matter of level, you have to take what you need to do. "

She missed her country, and she dreamed of the South of France. But the captain of the Blue, which has inflated his record during his exile - championship titles of Macedonia, Russia, an EHF Cup with Rostov in particular - keeps immense memories of this period: "The Final Four of the League of Champions, even if we did not manage to conclude, it was fantastic, " says the left wing.

She also "loved, to her surprise" life in Skopje and Rostov. Less Denmark: "The atmosphere was special. We did not do too many things together. We were training, and everyone was going home. I used to have a lot more friendliness. It was hard. "

"It's going to be a good game for Brest"

At 32 ("for the hand, it's old!", She laughs) , she chose to complete the loop in Toulon (she had already evolved from 2009 to 2012, with a champion title of France in 2010), thinking of the after. "I am rather late in the career," said the one who resumed her studies, in a marketing of luxury goods: "In the future, I would like to work in ready-to-wear. I might keep a foot in handball, but not as a coach, rather in running a club, as a leader. "

It will not be for now. Siraba Dembélé signed three years, and is there to supervise the young Toulon, hard during this first part of the season. "What are we missing? Players, clearly !, she says. We have a lot of young people, and besides, at the moment, we have a lot of injuries ... "

Tonight, facing the BBH, she does not rock so illusions: "Uh how to say ... It'll be a good game for Brest, but for us, it'll be a little more complicated, smiles Dembélé. We will try to do what we can! "

Then comes the Euro in France, one year after the world championships won in Germany. The goal? "It would be fantastic to follow. But we are expected, and a Euro is much more difficult than a World Cup. In any case, it will be two weeks of madness! "

The Brest group: Idehn, Quiniou, Mauny, Manach, Stoiljkovic, Mangue, Pineau, Tissier, Gros, Coatanea, Toublanc, Pop-lazic, Foppa, Limal.