To celebrate its 120th anniversary, the SCT, the Tulle rugby club, brought together more than 600 people, including 350 former players, for a big meal where nostalgia, friendship and emotions combined.
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He is the oldest member of this assembly of 350 former players of Sporting Club Tulliste gathered for the 120th anniversary of their club this Sunday, January 12, 2025. He is 87 years old, his name is Bernard Guedon.
At 87 years old, Bernard Guedon, former 3/4 wing, will be given a jersey from his favorite club this Sunday, January 12, 2025.
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The former 3/4 wing is given a jersey of his favorite club. Colors worn for the first time in 1954. At that time the Tulliste Sporting Club played nationally, in the big leagues. “It was Toulouse, Toulon, Racing but not Racing 92, Racing de France, it was the elite!” he remembers.
An elite with which the Tullist club shared the bill for 41 consecutive seasons, until 1993. During this period, the SCT qualified seven times for the quarter-finals of the French championship. All lost, but there is one who remains in our minds. The defeat against Brive on May 4, 1980.
Jean-Pierre Fauvel played this match. The third row is now reunited with his former teammates. He remembers: “It’s both a source of great pride because the club hasn’t had many quarter-finals, especially in the first division, but also a huge disappointment that year because we could have hoped to go much further. far away and we still hear a lot about it, and it’s been 40 years!“
Many former players had the pleasure of meeting again
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This is the beginning of the decline for the SCT. Thirteen years later, the team was relegated to the 2nd division. When Jérôme Bonvoisin arrived in 2008, the team was at its lowest, in Federal 3. The former emblematic captain of the CAB launched a final challenge and ended his career with the whites and blues: “what I found was a family spirit, a club with simple, authentic values and a human dimension which was perhaps lost in high-level sport, so we found a family club with ambitions“.
It is a family spirit, a club with simple, authentic values and a human dimension which was perhaps lost in high-level sport.
Jean-Pierre BonvoisinCaptain of the SCT between 2008 and 2014 and former CAB
Perhaps one day the succession of the SCT?
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Ambitions which brought Tulle back to Fédérale 1, its current level, while retaining its values around which an entire family came together to blow out the 120 candles.
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