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Pierreline Nazon, 18, a standout from Haiti’s U-20 ladies’s nationwide group, begins European trials with FC Sevilla and Viimsi JK, aiming to safe her first skilled contract. A prodigy from Port-au-Prince’s Affiliation Sportive Tigresses, she arrived in Spain on Oct. 3 for a cross-country journey that may conclude on Dec. 14—hoping to showcase her expertise at a number of top-flight golf equipment.
Haiti’s rising soccer star Pierreline Nazon, 18, has arrived in Europe for probably the most important alternative of her younger profession — a 10-week skilled tryout with a number of top-flight golf equipment.
Her journey begins Monday, Oct. 6, in Sevilla, Spain, earlier than shifting on to Viimsi JK in Estonia, as she seeks to earn her first skilled contract and proceed Haiti’s rising legacy in ladies’s soccer.
Nazon, a ahead for Affiliation Sportive Tigresses-Tigers (ASTT) —also called AS Tigresses—and a key member of Haiti’s U-20 nationwide group, departed Port-au-Prince on Oct. 1. The internship — working by means of mid-December — will enable her to coach, compete and bear evaluations by scouts in Spain and throughout Europe, the membership introduced in a statement posted on Fb.
“This marks a crucial step in her profession,” AS Tigresses mentioned. “Already thought-about some of the promising younger gamers of her technology, Pierreline Nazon has distinguished herself each nationally and internationally.”
The transfer marks a recent begin for Nazon, who earlier this 12 months narrowly missed a chance to coach with French big Paris Saint-Germain on account of journey doc points and household hesitation.
Regardless of that setback and the shortage of normal ladies’s membership competitions in Haiti because of the multidimensional disaster, her dedication by no means wavered. “This time, Pierreline is prepared,” Robert “Papito” Jean-Bart, an AS Tigresses’ committee member, advised The Haitian Instances. “We made certain that she educated with private coaches and competed in summer season championships to be ready.”
The proficient striker labored more durable than ever and even educated with males, enjoying in a summer season Futsal event in Pétion-Ville, to remain in form for this chance.
A brand new technology of expertise overseas is carrying the nation’s hopes.
Nazon’s European tryout follows the trail set by Haitian trailblazers Nérilia Mondésir (Montpellier, now Seattle Reign FC), Batchéba Louis (FC Fleury, now Birmingham Metropolis) and Melchie Dumornay (Stade de Reims, now OL Lyonnes), who’ve turn out to be family names in ladies’s soccer. She can also be following within the footsteps of Lourdjina Étienne, her former teammate at AS Tigresses and Haitian youth nationwide groups, who FC Fleury just lately recruited. These gamers have demonstrated that Haitian expertise can compete — and excel — on the world stage.
Her journey additionally comes at a time when Haiti, battered by gang violence and financial disaster, continues to depend on its diaspora and exports of expertise to carry delight to the nation.
“Each time a Haitian participant indicators overseas, it offers the folks hope,” mentioned sports activities journalist Kesny Norzius. “It’s one of many few remaining success tales that also unite the nation. Pierreline Nazon, together with Lourdjina Etienne, is among the many most proficient gamers Haiti has produced lately.”
“Already thought-about some of the promising younger gamers of her technology, Pierreline Nazon has distinguished herself each nationally and internationally.”
AS Tigresses
Regardless of political instability and violence which have shuttered native coaching facilities, reminiscent of Camp Nous in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti continues to supply world-class feminine expertise. These gamers embody the resilience of a technology — one which’s carrying Haiti’s flag from Port-au-Prince to Paris, Birmingham, and past.
The Haitian ladies’s program, notably on the youth stage, has been a gentle pipeline of success regardless of restricted assets. Nazon helped lead Haiti’s U-17 and U-20 groups by means of the Concacaf Ladies’s World Cup qualifiers in 2024 and 2025, scoring objectives and recording assists for others.
She has additionally captained Haiti’s nationwide sides at each youth stage — U14, U15, U17 and U20 — and gained the Caribbean U14 Championship title.
Because the younger star begins her European trials, she carries the burden of expectation from a rustic that sees soccer as its world calling card. When Pierreline takes the sphere in Spain, she isn’t simply representing herself — she’s representing Haiti’s resilience and prospects.
Nazon is represented by AS1 sports activities company, with whom she just lately signed. AS Tigresses additionally thanked its sponsors — together with Fondation Paryaj Lakay, SANCO S.A., Fondation Robert Denis, and NL Multi Service — for making Nazon’s journey to Europe potential. Their continued funding in ladies’s soccer has helped open doorways for gamers like Nazon, who dream of breaking into Europe’s elite leagues.
If profitable, she might be part of the rising record of Haitians primarily competing in France’s D1 Arkema, one of many world’s best ladies’s leagues.
Nazon’s journey resonated with lots of of younger women following her path at makeshift soccer fields throughout Haiti and the diaspora. For them, she resides proof that even in a rustic dealing with collapse, hope — and expertise — proceed to discover a manner out.