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The former Blues’ captain rarely gives himself up and evokes the disease that struck his child, himself a rugby player.
Marked for life. Raphaël Ibanez, 52, former captain of the XV of France and now manager of the Blues, will never forget that day in December 2022. On the 18th, precisely. When he learns that his young Matéo son, then 22, suffers from cancer. Acute leukemia.
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The beginning of a long period of anxieties, struggles, combat; which he rarely told to our colleagues from Midi Olympic. “A total shock” he confides he spent the first two weeks in resuscitation. We almost lost it, this big fellow of 1m94 … “
Matéo was then a rugby player in Blagnac, who played at the time in the 3rd division. In January 2023, he was forced to put his career in suspense to treat himself.
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“No parent is prepared for this kind of pain and quickly, we entered the caregivers’ group, accompanying” rewind Raphaël Ibanez. Three years later, today, Matéo is in remission. And received the green light from doctors to resume rugby, still in Blagnac, now a resident of 5th division. What’s more, the young man came out major from his promotion at INSA, Toulouse engineering school.
Proof that, as his father confides, Matéo is by far the strongest of us “.
