On board his boat Guyot Environnement-Water Family, in the middle of the Vendée Globe, skipper Benjamin Dutreux followed the Barça-Brest Champions League match as a Brest supporter. He confided in theAfter Foot on RMC.
One of the Barça-Brest viewers was therefore in the middle of the Atlantic, on the way to the Cape of Good Hope. At around 30 km/h on the water, Benjamin Dutreux, 14th in the Vendée Globe ranking, managed to follow the progress of this historic match for the Breton club in the Champions League (3-0 defeat). Then with an impeccable connection, he testified in theAfter Foot on RMC.
“I'm right between Brazil and South Africa. (…) I tried to watch, there were still quite a few cuts. But I managed to see a few replays and follow the major events of the match”, he confided aboard his Imoca, Tuesday November 26.
“There was never a moment when they gave up”
Benjamin Dutreux is not, however, a long-time Brest supporter. “Since I was a kid, I have supported Nantes,” he even admitted. But one of the sponsors of its race, Guyot Environnement, is closely linked to Stade Brestois. “It was a pretty crazy event to have Brest in the Champions League. They made me love Brest and, since then, I have followed their adventure to the fullest. Because it’s a beautiful story of Little Thumb among the big ones “.
So what does he think of this shock against Barça? “They fought well, they went back and forth. There wasn’t a moment when they gave up, that’s what I remember.”
This footballing parenthesis over, Benjamin Dutreux, who is “fighting to try to get into the top 10” had to get back into his skipper's routine. “I'm going to take a little nap for an hour and a half or two hours soon. I'm setting lots of alarms, so if the wind changes direction or I come across boats, it'll go off. Then I'll I'm going to go out, adjust the sails a little if necessary, then go back and take a little nap if I need to recover a little”, he explained to Gilbert Brisbois, Daniel Riolo and Emmanuel Petit.
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