Victim of a fracture of the orbital floor last Saturday against Perpignan, Nicolas Depoortere was operated on this Thursday. The father of the French international spoke, and did not mince his words.
These are the words of a father who was afraid for his son. In the columns of France Bleu GirondeAlexandre Depoortere spoke to discuss his son’s serious injury against Usap last Saturday, victim of an orbital floor fracture after a head-to-head collision with Apisaï Naqalevu. Obviously angry, he did not avoid any subject, quite the contrary.
Firstly, he gave news of Nicolas Depoortere, operated on this Thursday for a fracture of the orbital floor: “ Everything is fine. He has just returned and is now resting. He will now live with this plaque and he will then see when he wants to remove it, perhaps within a year. It’s a bit the same thing as Antoine Dupont during the last World Cup.”
Present in the stands of Chaban-Delmas last Saturday, the parents of the international center were as close as possible to the action: “We were 30 meters away and we saw that it had hit very hard. We very quickly understood: boom, broken! I would also like to thank the UBB staff for their reactivity unlike the 42, 43 seconds that “It took the referee to stop the play but hey, that’s another story.”
“It’s an attack!”
A few days after the meeting, Nicolas Depoortere does not remember anything, as his father explains in his speech. Evacuated from the pitch after remaining on the ground for several minutes, the UBB player will now have to wait several weeks before putting on his crampons again. “Everyone has seen the images, it’s an attack! It’s not a games’insurge Alexandre Depoortere. It’s incomprehensible. We talk about player safety from morning to night, and that’s very good, we also know that it’s a combat sport, we know that there are risks but frankly, it’s indefensible.”
Upset, the father of Bordelo-Béglais also admitted to having received no message from Usap: “ Don’t talk to me about that. This shocked me! We have no news. We didn’t even ask for an apology, just humanely to get news of the injured person. So the UBB may have received something but Nicolas personally has not had any call or even just a message from the USAP or the player. As a dad, it really bothers me!”
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