Siraba Dembélé-Pavlovic and Alexandra Lacrabère will retire from sport at the end of the season
Siraba Dembélé-Pavlovic and Alexandra Lacrabère who both play in Bucharest, the first at CSM, the second at Rapid, will hang up at the end of the season. Both present in Montbéliard to attend the short victory for the Blues on Sweden, the two former players of the French handball team were celebrated after the match, during a ceremony in tribute to the emblematic tricolor players.
Siraba Dembélé-Pavlovic, former captain of the French women’s handball team, announced her decision on Sunday. “I had already more or less expressed it in 2022 but this time, for sure, I am stopping my sports career at the end of the season. Even though physically I still feel great at the age of 36, I think it’s the right time.”, explained the tricolor winger. Her captaincy was the longest in the history of Les Bleues, of which she is the second top scorer with 848 goals in 291 caps.
Another big name in French women’s handball, Alexandra Lacrabère (35), eternal number 64 in reference to her birth department, had also announced her retirement at the end of the current season in the newspaper. South West Friday. She was part of the Olympic champion group in Tokyo in 2021, having played in four Olympiads. With Siraba Dembélé-Pavlovic, they won the title of world champion in 2017.
