At 33 years old, Joris Nivore is not yet the oldest member of the Lanester Handball squad: “I leave this title to Julien (Lardieux, 36 years old)! (laughs).” But the big pivot (2.03 m), who arrived in Morbihan in 2012, is this season the oldest player on the team. “I knew Mathieu Hurtaud (former player and coach of the club)”, rewinds the Martinican, who was then coming out of two seasons in Saintes (Charente-Maritime). Trained at the Franciscan Transit Sport (TSF) then at the Le François Hope Center, he left his native island at the age of 16 to join the mainland and the Aurillac Training Center, then in the first division. “I even played a few matches there with the first team.” Hit in the ankle in April, this strong link was part of the cohort of injured players who hampered Lanester’s start to the season. “We also had to integrate the recruits, but everyone found their place in the service of the collective,” notes the defender, who is delighted that the club managed to keep winger Andy Dumitrache this summer, while emphasizing the contribution of young goalkeeper Hugo Bonnat and the progress of pivot Lilian Litoust.
A thankless but essential position
Left back among young people, Joris Nivore quickly slipped into the pivot position, more precisely “low 3 defender”. In handball, it’s the boss of the defense, the one who stays glued to the six-meter line, to mark the opposing pivot or slide on the outside, before leaving his place in attack. A job as thankless as it is essential: “I always liked it: directing the defense, putting the opposing shooters in check, protecting my goalkeeper by closing one side of the cage,” explains the medical-social worker, who works in particular with of Child Welfare (Ase). A vocation for this son of a family assistant, accustomed to welcoming other children into his home, and who made his life in Lanester, to the delight of the flagship Morbihan club. “My girlfriend and my friends are here. I miss family and Martinique, but I go back from time to time and life is not so bad in Brittany! “.
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