cpl live_Cricket Betting_“It was proving to the coaching staff and to the team that they could trust me.” | Rayane Yesli.
Selected third overall by Valour FC in the 2021 CPL U-Sports Draft, Yesli began last season as the understudy to Jonathan Sirois – the league’s top keeper in 2021 – before earning his first start and then another, and another after that, en route to becoming one of the team’s shining stars by year’s end.
Yesli made nine CPL starts a year ago – as well as the club’s loss to the Vancouver Whitecaps in the Canadian Championship – and posted sensational numbers with four clean sheets and a goals-conceded average of just .889.
Again, that represents a ton of growth over just a few months.
It’s one thing to be practicing, it’s another thing playing,” Yesli said in a chat with valourfootball.club after Day 3 of training at the WSF Soccer Complex. “You can be good in training but when you et in the game on the field it’s completely different. It’s like when you have an exam at school: the game is the exam, and you study at home during practice.
“It was a big challenge and I’m happy I was able to live up to it and it helped me grow a lot. As a player you always think, you always know, you can play at this level or even higher. That’s how we are as players; that’s how we need to be. It was proving to the coaching staff and to the team that they could trust me. That was the most important thing for me.”
