He had still experienced the first team of the RCT during a Champions Cup match against Newcastle in 2019. That is to say as many appearances with his “training” club as Antoine Zeghdar, who nevertheless continued his career of XV and 7 that we know.
Despite this, around ten match sheets in ProD2 and 25 in Nationale, thehe pillar Matthieu Loudet has decided to end his career at just 26 years old. Him and US Dax have in fact decided to end the contract between them.
Arrived in the Landes at the end of the 2022/2023 season as a medical joker, the solid pillar (1m83 for 125kg) had extended his contract with the Rouge et Blanc until 2025. But this young right-hander ultimately suffered from competition for the position last season in Pro D2 (4 games, 135 minutes in total) and simply did not correspond to the expectations of the staff.
Tired of the situation, the lack of his family and this professional rugby in which he “no longer finds himself”, the former Narbonnais therefore decided to end the adventure here. Younger, this great physical potential was one of the great Espoirs of the RCT, with whom he had also been champion of France Crabos in 2016, then Espoirs in 2019.
“L'Ours” will therefore return to his native St-Raphaël (83) and begin a reconversion in the restaurant business, working in the family restaurant for the moment. With the aim of opening, as soon as possible, his own business in the sector.
What about rugby? Is the door definitively closed, even as an amateur, whose training club CARF (Federal 2) would certainly have liked to have him back? “It could have tempted me but combining rugby with a job in catering seems very complicated to me.“, he admitted to us. “What is certain is that if I take a license again, it will only be without constraints and to have fun with certain childhood friends.“…
