Welcomed by Albert Domique (Béber), director of UAL, the discussions were focused on rugby, but also on the values and assets of a sport of commitment and heart, attached to its territory.
From rugby to choir
If there is no third half without singing, there is no XV without choirs. It was the group “Pégas dé Votzs”, which surrounded the television team for a big day. From Cavin to Bagnères, where Maxime offered a coffee, passing through the Halles where the songs followed one another in the middle of an audience enchanted by this improvised performance this Saturday market, they were able to sit down and have lunch at the Col des Palombières , around an inevitably memorable meal at Loulou Baïla. In just a few hours, Bigorre opened up to these rugby visitors.
“We received them as we receive friends. They had to understand who we are, where we live and how we receive the people we love,” explained Jean Claude Viau, a true ambassador of a territory that he knows, cherishes, and wants to be loved by everyone. Mixing Occitan with French, the one who finds that by singing sometimes the messages get across better, guided them with his voice, his heart and his eyes, even in his beloved Baronies.
-Le match AS Pont-Long / Coarraze-Nay
The federal 2 match, which pitted Pont-Long against Coarraze-Nay on Sunday, saw the “Rencontre à XV” team, with Erick Mouget, Nicolas Sahaguian and Eric Varignon at the edge of the field, continue to breathe the Pyrenean foothills and rugby that courage, friendship and strength characterize so well. They will have been able for the love of this sport, like the public but in silence behind the camera, to encourage some without criticizing others too much, and even at the end of the match, over a beer, will have – perhaps they like in Palombières, mixed their voices with those of others, to sing about rugby, pretty girls, and the surrounding peaks.
Béber, as a knowledgeable supervisor, will no doubt have kept one eye on the match and the other on this television team now full of chorus, before singing The refuge, and even the “Se canti”, if it was necessary to demonstrate a attachment to the country, as recent as it is sincere. There is no doubt that these “Meetings of fifteen”… and a little more, will remain in hearts. It is said of the mountains that they do not meet, there are some in the land of Brouches who talk to each other, when the ball is oval, and the public is passionate.
