Recently elected best player in the world of Rugby sevens, Antoine Dupont amazed his coach in the French team.
Antoine Dupont completed his Grand Slam. On Sunday, the Stade Toulousain scrum half won the title of best sevens rugby player at the World Rugby Awards organized in Monaco. A fair reward in view of the enchanted parenthesis experienced by the former Castres with the French rugby sevens team.
After his debut concluded with a third place in Vancouver, Antoine Dupont led the Blues to victory in Los Angeles in his second tournament. Then at the end of May, between the title of European champion won with Stade Toulousain then a new coronation in the Top 14, he won the title of world champion during the Finals in Madrid. Above all, he guided the Blues to the Olympic title in a melting Stade de France, offering the French delegation its first world gold.
“Better to have a license so as not to break it”
Elected coach of the year at the same World Rugby Awards, Jérôme Daret, who handed over after the Olympic title, obviously has nothing but good things to say about Toulouse. “It was not the man who was difficult to manage but more what was around him. It was quite astonishing, it brought us exponential light”he confided in the columns of Sud-Ouest.
And in the eyes of the technician, the arrival of Antoine Dupont has completely changed the situation for the septists, even for the staff.
“It was necessary to both preserve him, prepare him for a discipline that he did not know, and prepare the collective to receive the skills that he brought and which radiate. The staff too: if they give you a Ferrari, it’s better to have a license so as not to break it”he explained.
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