“My tattoo took fourteen hours, in two stages, two passages of seven hours,” says Tuilagi.
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Giovanni Habel-Küffner's tattoos were done “by machine”: “They don't have the same depth”.
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“The pe'a is the real traditional tattoo, the one that goes from the torso to the knee on both sides of the body. Normally, you do it in pairs. This way you share the pain. »
Pablo Ordas
The real traditional tattoo is done with a comb. This is the process used by Manu Tuilagi.
An issue whose special report is dedicated to players from the Pacific, who have enchanted world Rugby for thirty years. On the menu, interviews with the French internationals from Union Bordeaux Bègles Yoram Moefana and Sipili Falatea, and with the former French international Yolaine Yengo, who talk about the uprooting they suffered when leaving their islands; a zoom on the Taofifenua family; the portrait of Misaele Petero, a Fijian like so many others who missed his bet on a career in Europe; and an investigation into Caledonian talents, torn between the desire to reach the distant metropolis and the proximity of the holy land of rugby, New Zealand.
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In addition to the special report on Pacific rugby, “Raffut” n°11 also offers you an exclusive interview with Romain Ntamack, and two investigations on racism and ecology in rugby.
Exclusive interview with Ntamack
But “Raffut” is not limited to that. The tenth issue of our quarterly also offers you an exclusive interview with the opener of the Stade Toulousain Romain Ntamack, who is dying to get back into the Blue jersey, and two surveys: one on the impossible dream of a greener rugby , and the other on the spread of racism in the oval world.
We will return to the future of rugby sevens in France after the summer success at the Olympic Games, and to a so far unanswered question: why is Brittany the only Celtic territory where rugby has not taken off?
Finally, two unusual encounters: in Haute-Vienne, we found the trace of Francis Palmade, the referee who invented the modern gesture of summary proceedings while he officiated a Scotland – Wales in 1973… not to mention every word of English. Then we tell you the fabulous destiny of Mikel Guerendiain, Basque second row who found himself an Armenian international following a typo on his last name.
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