Matz Sels tries the Strasbourg challenge: "It's a great challenge"

Football

Matz Sels moves from RSCA to RCSA. He has signed for four years in Strasbourg.

No, he will not stay at Anderlecht next season. No, he will not return to Newcastle, where he signed from La Gantoise two years ago. At the age of 26, Matz Sels agreed to cross the English championship to drop his bags in a third country. The Belgian goalkeeper has signed a four-year lease with Racing Strasbourg, Ligue 1 club, for around € 4 million.

What obviously pleased the president of RCSA, Marc Keller. "I am very happy that he chose Racing, we were looking for an experienced goalkeeper, it was a priority for the club and Matz had to bring his experience to the world, both with his different clubs that contact the national team of Belgium. "

Even if he gives up a return to the Premier League, the native of Lint does not see this as a step backwards. "It's a good race, a difficult championship with big teams, it makes you want to"! did he react on the site of his new club where he will meet his former team-mate in Ghent Stefan Mitrovic but also the former Kortrijk deliverer Idriss Saadi. "Racing has made an effort to recruit me, I will give the maximum here, it's a great challenge."

 
  
   
    The fourth goalkeeper of the Red Devils took the opportunity to discuss his absence at the World Cup.
     "I was disappointed but it's part of a footballer's life, afterwards I went to support my national team, I did not give up and I'll do my best to get the Red Devils jersey back."
   
 

 
  
   
    And at the same time, he buries the hatchet between Belgium and France, his new host country.
     "I do not want France" he says.
     "Sometimes, in Belgium, it was said that it was unfair and that the best team was the Red Devils, but when we beat Uruguay, Argentina, Belgium and Croatia, that's that we just deserved to be world champions. "
   
 

 
  
   
    As a reminder, Matz Sels was loaned last season to Anderlecht by Newcastle United. He had never really been able to convince in the Premier League, which he had joined in 2016 thanks to his excellent performance under the shirt of La Gantoise and his title of best goalkeeper Pro League in 2015.