Article by Daniel Scorpie – published Monday, August 18, 2025, 19:36 / Updated Monday, August 18, 2025 7:36
Strasbourg entered the history of football directly in the match he won on Saturday (1-0 at Metz) in the first stage of the new Ligue 1 season. All the holders sent in the field by Liam Rosenior were born this millennium, the average age of the starting team being 20.36 years! The English coach of the team whose owner is Todd Boehly has 41.
In fact, RC Strasbourg Alsace, which last season missed the qualification in the European Cups (finished in the seventh place, on equal points with Lyon), was the team with the youngest age in Europe (PSG was the second, and Parma was on the third position).
But now the club in the city near the border with Germany has exceeded any imagination!
3French players played holders in Strasbourg in Metz (1-0) match of Ligue 1
The historical record is the result of a corporate policy that is very related to young and oriented to the future: the owner of the club in Strasbourg is the same as that of the Chelsea club, Teddy Boehly's Blueco, which actually turns Strasbourg in a “nursery” of the Stamford Bridge group.
Todd Boehly sends many young people from Chelsea to bear fruit at the “satellite” Strasbourg
Strasbourg's holders at Metz had average of 20.36
The 11 players passed on the game sheet as holders had an average of 20.36 years. None exceeds 22 years, and the youngest has 19. And I'm no less than five! These are two central defenders, the Danish Lucas Hogsberg and the French Mamadou Sarr, the Moroccan central midfielder Samir El Mourabet plus the far right English Samuel Amo-Ameyaw and the Ivorian wing abdoul Ouattara,
The most mature footballers who started the match with Metz are only 22 years old: the French defensive midfielder Junior Mwanga, the French offensive midfielder Félix Lemmaréchal and the attackers, the Argentine Joaquín Panichelli and the Dutchman Emanuel Emegha, who is also captain.
The Argentine Joaquin Panicelli, the Victorios goal scorer, is among Strasbourg's most mature players / Photo: Imago
Between the two age levels are the 2.00 meter goalkeeper, the Belgian Mike Penders, and the Central Argentine midfielder Valentín Barco.
2Players from RC Strasbourg Alsace lots are at least 30 years old: Swedish goalkeeper Karl-Johan Johnson (35) and Ukrainian left defender Eduard Sobol (30)
The reserves introduced in the second half by Liam Rosenior have “ruined” the average age of half a year: the French far -right Dilane Bakwa (22 years old), the Swedish left midfielder Sebastian Nanasi (23) and the Ecuadorian midfielder Kendry Páez (18).
