It’s the return of the heroes to their town.
Pézilla-la-Rivière, 5 p.m. The church bells ring out for 10 minutes to mark a historic first victory for the club in a national competition, the France Regional 2 challenge, in Toulouse against Pontacq.
Almost as if the missing members of the club had taken good care of him, symbolized by the legendary bob of Bruno Micheu, coach of the 2002 finalists, screwed on the head of Nicolas Olive with this blade of grass at the corner of his mouth during the warm-up, to one of the first and beautiful images of this suspense film and its happy end, to which we will add that of the osmotic presence of the players who did not participate in this final (injuries or others). A film which has its share of strong scenes, with in the credits Guilhem Guirado who came to provide this advice during the last training session on Friday and who warned: “you are on a mission” , with the 500 wild supporters, a large part of whom participated in a grill in the stadium parking lot prepared by Thomas and his grill brigade which worked miracles. The drama of the match crescendoed with injuries to key positions, for an anthology scene with an almost general collapse of the test conceded at the last second (20-19) before the opponent missed the transformation and transformed 116 years of frustration and 5 finals lost in an indescribable, emotionally charged jubilation, coloring the green lawn “yellow and black” in a few seconds.
A carefree youth
It is the pride of the finalist dads Thierry Berjoan, Florent Lamarque, Philippe Olive, to see their offspring Thierry, Théo, Nicolas succeed where they had failed, or the joy of the inhabitants of the Fenouillèdes district for their two champions Sébastien Marin and David Venosino. Although without suspense, the final scene played out under the plane trees of the wholesale market, where Saint-Jean had lit the fires for a finale with the parade of players, coaches, managers on a cart singing at the top of their lungs “Listen, it’s the Pézillanais, tonight we won, it’s the Revelli who are going to burst into flames.” taken up by a crazy audience. “We are the yellow and black people. It’s an extraordinary day. We are today on the roof of France. They made the village happy. Thank you for this happiness”, Mayor Jean-Paul Billes burst out without restraint, girded with his “yellow and black” scarf. In the cast, we will not forget the coaches Eric Gineste, Florent Blin, Pierre David, and those of the reserve team, Bastien Morato, David Faure, Julien Pujolar, and the trainers José Carreno and Olivier Billès, nor the other villages of the agreement (Saint-Féliu, le Soler, Corneilla, Baho). It was only very late in this festive night that co-presidents Thierry Baux and Régis Moliner realized that they were forever the first. With a tear in their eyes, the alumni of 1922, 1959, 1976, 1990, 2002 can applaud this carefree youth who accomplished their mission. Supporters can calmly wait for what happens next.
