Laëtitia Philippa

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Laëtitia Philippe (born 30 April 1991 in Chambéry) is a French footballer.

Club career
Laëtitia Philippe played as a girl and teenager at FC Vimines, Sporting Cognin and from 2001 to 2007 at the FCS Rumilly Albanais in her Savoyard homeland. Then HSC Montpellier brought her into his women’s team. Already as a 16-year-old, the goalkeeper came to first appearances in Montpellier's first division women's union, but she was only used since the season 2009/10 in alternation with Céline Deville, the club's No. 1 in points or cup matches. By the summer of 2011, Philippe had played only 27 league games. With the national cup competition in 2009 she won her first title there; As in Montpellier’s finals in 2010 and 2011, she only sat on the bench. Since Deville's departure at the beginning of the season 2011/12, she is the undisputed number one in Montpellier, except that she was absent for more than half of the season in 2012/13 due to an injury and for the same reason was also retired at the turn of the year 2014/2015.

After being only second choice at Montpellier in the 2017/18 season behind Méline Gérard, she joined the first division women of AF Rodez in 2018 and, after their relegation, those of FC Fleury twelve months later. Since 2021, she has been part of the ASJ Soyaux squad, which she loaned to Girondins Bordeaux in January 2022.

As a national player
Laëtitia Philippe has played almost 50 games with the year-group youth selections in France and was the main goalkeeper in three major international competitions: the U-17 World Cup 2008, the U-19 European Championship 2009 (where the French women reached the semi-finals) and the U-20 World Cup 2010. In the 2011/12 season she also belongs to France’s student national team.

Her first A-country match she completed in the 2-0 victory in Serbia in November 2009, a World Cup qualifier. Nevertheless, national coach Bruno Bini appointed Laëtitia Philippe to the French squad for the 2011 World Cup in Germany, preferring her to Sarah Bouhaddi, the goalkeeper of the Champions League winner Olympique Lyon. It considered its consideration an “opportunity to learn and gain experience” and was not used there. Several other footballers from the “1991 vintage” (Catala, Crammer, Gadéa, Makanza) have also moved into the A squad after the World Cup finals. Meanwhile, Philippe has made it to four appearances at the Bleues (as of 23.) October 2015. She belonged to the French Olympic squad in 2012, albeit only as a “follower”. However, her injury from the second half of 2012 also set her back on the national team; Since then, Karima Benameur has been number three, until Bini successor Philippe Bergeroo nominated the goalkeeper for the Cyprus Cup in March 2014 without using her. It then took a year and a half before she again joined the A-Elf Berücksi