{"id":4536,"date":"2024-11-05T11:56:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T10:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2024-11-08T10:32:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T09:32:54","slug":"auxerre-judo-because-its-not-just-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/en\/auxerre-judo-parce-quil-ny-a-pas-que-le-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Auxerre Judo - Because it's not just about soccer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if the surprise of this 2024-2025 edition came from the Yonne? Auxerre Judo, chaired by Nassar Elassri, arrived in the Judo Pro League last season and have all the hallmarks of a serious outsider. Last year, we narrowly lost in the quarter-finals to ES Blanc-Mesnil Judo, on their home ground, by a score of five to four,\" explains the man who trained at Auxerre Arts Martiaux under Eug\u00e8ne Domagata, and who has been working as a physical trainer at the AJ Auxerre training center for several years now. This season, we're aiming for the Final Four. Our aim is to take things one step at a time. This is no far-fetched ambition, as the team from Auxerre won their first two matches convincingly: 6-3 against AM Asni\u00e8res Judo 92 and 8-0 against the Dojo Nantais!<\/p>\n<p>A strong, homogeneous group, whose genesis lies in the training work initiated by the Auxerre club (nearly 270 licenses last season) and... friendship. We trained Nawaliatou Babio and Yann Rigaud,\" continues Nassar Elassri. As for Adrien Geoffroy, he stayed with the club for four seasons. Thanks to his results, Yann Rigaud moved to Paris and chose Sucy Judo as his elite structure. I went to train there regularly, and the relationship with the staff quickly became a good one. I then asked Franck Party if he was up for the Judo Pro League project. He said yes. As he was also in charge of the JC Pontault-Combault women's team, at the time with P\u00e9n\u00e9lope Bonna, we had a very solid base of fighters, to which we could add Nawaliatou and Yann, who had trained at the club. It was very important!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC8888-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4581\" src=\"https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC8888-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC8888-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC8888-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC8888-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC8888-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC8888-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC8888-1-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This season, Auxerre Judo can also count on a heavyweight reinforcement: Toma Nikiforov, Belgian international fighter in the -100kg class, Open world vice-champion in 2017 behind Teddy Riner, double European champion and, among other things, winner of the Paris Grand Slam in 2022. \"With my brother Mohamed, we fought for several years with Toma's Brussels club, Judo Royal Crossing Club Schaerbeek. We even took part in the European Club Cup in 2012. For this post-Olympic season, when I asked him if he wanted to join us, he didn't hesitate.\"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC9360-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4582\" src=\"https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC9360-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC9360-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC9360-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC9360-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC9360-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC9360-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/PHRC9360-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A participation in the Judo Pro League that Nassar and the club couldn't miss. \"The format of the event and the promotion of the discipline offered by this new competition immediately convinced us, as did the town and the agglomeration community, which are behind us\", Nassar says bluntly. It's a fantastic opportunity to get the word out about Auxerre judo in an environment where soccer crushes everything. Auxerre Judo is not lacking in assets, and even enjoys an excellent reputation. Highly committed to the issue of citizenship, the club received an award last May from the Bourgogne Franche-Comt\u00e9 regional Olympic and sports committee as part of the \"Challenge sport citoyen\". \"Our parents instilled in us the values of the Republic. Now it's our turn, and we're doing it thanks to judo and its wonderful image: visiting the National Assembly, learning first aid, taking part in ceremonies organized by the town, meeting the national police in the neighborhoods where we give classes\", says Nassar Elassri. All of which would make judo Auxerre's other sport.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Et si la surprise de cette \u00e9dition 2024-2025 nous venait de l\u2019Yonne ? Arriv\u00e9e en Judo Pro League la saison derni\u00e8re, l\u2019\u00e9quipe d\u2019Auxerre Judo, pr\u00e9sid\u00e9e par Nassar Elassri, a toutes les caract\u00e9ristiques du s\u00e9rieux outsider. \u00ab L\u2019ann\u00e9e derni\u00e8re, nous perdons de justesse en quart de finale contre l\u2019ES Blanc-Mesnil Judo, chez eux, sur le score [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auxerre-judo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Auxerre Judo - Parce qu\u2019il n\u2019y a pas que le football ! - Judo Pro League<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/judoproleague.com\/en\/auxerre-judo-because-its-not-just-soccer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Auxerre Judo - Parce qu\u2019il n\u2019y a pas que le football ! - Judo Pro League\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Et si la surprise de cette \u00e9dition 2024-2025 nous venait de l\u2019Yonne ? 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