Antoine Dupont’s return to training this week, before the Toulouse-Clermont match this weekend, does not please his former teammate Benjamin Urdapilleta.
The boss is back! After having been entitled to an extended vacation due to his participation in the Olympic Games, where he won the gold medal with the French rugby sevens team, Antoine Dupont resumed training this week with Stade Toulousain .
This is bad news for Clermont, the next opponent of the reigning champions. Unlike Vannes, La Rochelle, Montpellier, Bordeaux-Bègles and Castres, who faced a Stade Toulousain deprived of its usual starting number 9, the Jaunards will have to deal with the one who was again elected best player in the Top 14 last season .
“Dupont?” This is not possible…”
“I saw that he had resumed this week and that he was available to play against us, reacted Benjamin Urdapilleta, usher of the ASM, at the microphone of Sud Radio. Couldn’t he have waited a week? It’s not possible, we’re out of luck…”
There is obviously no malice and a little irony in the words of the Argentinian, who was Dupont’s teammate at Castres at the start of the phenomenon’s career. But it is certain that Dupont’s return comes at the right time for Stade Toulousain, which remains on two consecutive defeats in the championship. And losing three times in a row is not in the habit of the Toulouse house…
