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Kelly Arbey, ça ne fait que commencer

Novice en senior, Kelly Arbey a déjà goûté aux joies de la sélection en catégorie jeunes (Instagram kelly.arbey)

Le maillot bleu de l’équipe de France, Kelly Arbey connait. Si la jeune ailière, 19 ans en mai, va enfiler celui des « grandes » pour la première fois samedi face à l’Irlande, elle ne débarquera pas totalement en terre inconnue.

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Propulsée titulaire sur l’aile droite alors qu’elle n’a pas encore engrangé la moindre sélection en A, la joueuse du Stade Toulousain peut déjà compter sur une certaine expérience du haut niveau malgré son jeune âge. Il faut dire que le rugby, elle est tombée dedans quand elle était petite !

« J’ai commencé le rugby à quatre ans, car petite je voulais tout faire comme mon grand frère », dévoile-t-elle dans le guide média du Tournoi des Six Nations fourni par la FFR. « Quand il a commencé le rugby, c’était une évidence pour moi de faire pareil. Depuis, je n’ai plus quitté les crampons ».

Déjà deux Grands Chelems au palmarès

Touche-à-tout – elle a pratiqué le football, l’escalade, le judo ou encore le tennis en parallèle du rugby – la Tarnaise est vite repérée par le Castres Olympique. Elle y fait ses gammes et marque les esprits. A tel point que les radars de la Fédération pointent rapidement vers elle.

Elle participe, en 2021, au Top 50 féminin U18 : un stage de détection pour les équipes de France à XV et VII, qui regroupe les meilleures joueuses issues des générations 2003, 2004, 2005. Avec cette catégorie des moins de 18, elle participe à deux Tournois des Six-Nations, pour autant de succès final parachevé d’un Grand Chelem.

L’an dernier, elle marque notamment le premier essai aux Anglaises, mettant ainsi les Bleuettes sur la voie du Grand Chelem (57-10 au final).

Désormais au Stade Toulousain, avec qui elle a inscrit cinq essais en neuf matchs cette saison, Kelly Arbey bénéficiera de l’apport de certaines de ses coéquipières “rouge et noir”, samedi au Mans. Elles sont en effet six dans le groupe France, dont Kiara Zago, encore plus jeune mais qui déjà capée deux fois.

A l’image d’Arbey et Zago, le binôme de sélectionneurs a choisi de faire la part belle aux jeunes. Douze des joueuses retenus ont en effet 23 ans ou moins.

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« On a la volonté de créer un gros groupe, avec une vision sur le long terme, d’où la volonté d’intégrer des jeunes. L’objectif, c’est [la Coupe du Monde] 2025 », souligne Gaëlle Mignot. « Le niveau augmente, et on sent que les jeunes sont prêtes ».

« La filière féminine est riche en potentiel, et travaille très bien. Tout va très vite aujourd’hui, on est obligés de passer la seconde. Mais cela se fait sans surprise : on les sent prêtes », confirme David Ortiz.

Kelly Arbey a sans doute hâte de le démontrer.

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JWH 4 hours ago
'Matches between Les Bleus and the All Blacks are rarely for the faint-hearted.'

Do you hear yourself? Do you have any concept of world view? Have you tried looking into why people call Ireland ‘arrogant’? Obviously not.


We started calling you arrogant when you called our captain a ‘shit Richie McCaw’. In New Zealand. On our turf. Don’t think that kind of behaviour really calls for respect, does it.


NZ don’t really talk ourselves up, if anything the rugby does it for us. No kiwi goes in the media and says: ‘We are gonna win the RWC’. However, I have found many instance of IRISH media saying that the Irish should win, without a doubt. THAT is disrespectful.


The All Blacks have played good rugby, even some of the best rugby ever, at many points in history, but I don’t think you could find a single instance of one of those players, or the NZ media, saying that they should whitewash their opponents. Ever.


Now, onto your analysis. Ireland DID choke the QF. They beat the champions, they were ranked first coming into it, a lot of players at the peaks of their powers. Its hard to say that they didn’t choke. Obviously, their preparation was just not as good as NZ, and thats all there really is to it.


If Ireland had repsected that ABs team and that QF more, maybe they would’ve prepared properly for it and won. But they didn’t.


Maybe if Ireland had won their QF last RWC, they wouldn’t have to be in the same pool as SA and Scotland. I mean, its called a draw for a reason. NZ got third last RWC, so of course they should get a reasonable pool, and they were ranked pretty highly too. If you want to talk about easy pools, look no further than Pool 3 with England, Australia, Fiji, and Georgia I think?


Now, obviously you don’t remember how that QF ended, so I’ll go ahead and rectify that. Ireland reclaimed the ball off kickoff and marched for 20ish phases into the opposition half. Savea then won a turnover, but the referee refused to give it, so play went on. Finally, at the NZ 22, after not giving up a single penatly in 25 phases of hard defense, Sam Whitelock, the most capped All Black of all time, wins the game with an incredible steal.


Now, NZ players having a go at Ireland. Do you cry when you get hit after making the first swing? We all know Sexton is a prick on the field, its just the truth. And Ioane never backs down from a clash, so he thought he should humble a player who has never won an international knockout game who thought he was all that. Don’t really see the issue, its poetic justice really.

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