USAP and the association, which work together on the training center and the espoir team, have validated part of the squad for next season.
USAP is already preparing for the future. The Catalan club, while the recruitment of the first team is not yet complete, but the club, in conjunction with USAP association, has made strong progress on the hopeful team for next season.
With the arrival of Franck Azéma a year ago, the links with the training center, already very strong, were accentuated, and many young people now train all year round with the professionals, in order to progress at their side, but also to strengthen the group.
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This is what Job Poulet (21 years old, center), Mathys Lotrian (20 years old hooker), Lorencio Boyer Gallardo (20 years old, left pillar) experienced, all three of whom had playing time with the pros and who will therefore extend their U21 contracts for two additional seasons, with the aim of completing their training and registering for the long term in the professional group.
They will be accompanied by Italian center Nicola Bozzo (19), who arrived last season. This will also be the case for Bastien Chinarro (20 years old, 2nd row), who had a more complicated season due to injuries, but who will continue for two additional seasons with the hopefuls and the third with the pros.
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Ambitious recruitments
But the training center will also be considerably strengthened, with the arrival of very promising youngsters: Noé Della-Schiava (22 years old, 3rd row from La Rochelle, two-year contract, one with the hopefuls and one professional), Giani Callegari (19 years old, 2nd row, from Carcassonne, two-year contract with the hopefuls), Andro Dvali (18 years old, 3rd row, from Tbilisi, Georgia, two-year contract with the hopefuls). Added to this is the two-year contract for Narbonne left pillar Livai Tikoipau (22 years old), who will be loaned for an additional year to Racing Club Narbonne.
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A major recruitment for a club that is already preparing for the future, hoping to detect some nuggets. The Catalan team continues to put itself in the spotlight over the years, with numerous selections among the youth. Because behind Posolo Tuilagi and Lucas Dubois, both trained at USAP and who are currently with the France A team in Argentina for the summer tour, Mathys Lotrian and Lorencio Boyer Gallardo are currently in South Africa with the France U20 team, for the World Cup. Just like Nicola Bozzo, selected with Italy.
Recruitment of professionals soon to be completed
The recruitment of the professional team will end on June 30. There are only a few days left to find the few players who are still missing to shape the squad for next season. Three positions are still to be “filled”. That of scrum-half, since Franck Azéma and David Marty wanted to strengthen the hinge, a versatile winger position behind and a forward capable of playing in the second and third row.
For number 9, it is the Georgian scrum half (Jiff) from Bayonne Gela Aprasidze (26 years old) who holds the rope. According to our information, there are only a few details left to settle with the club.
Behind, the sevens player Jefferson-Lee Joseph (21 years old), member of the French 7s team and under contract with Agen, is on the club’s tablets.
