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Sélectionneur de l'Italie, Quesada chantera quand même l'hymne argentin

Gonzalo Quesada a été nommé sélectionneur de l'Italie au lendemain de la Coupe du Monde 2023. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)

Sélectionneur des Azzurri, l’Argentin Gonzalo Quesada ne pourra pas s’empêcher de chanter l’hymne national lors d’Italie – Argentine le 9 novembre.

Gonzalo Quesada a beau officier comme sélectionneur de l’Italie, il reste profondément Argentin et la rencontre prévue entre les Azzurri et les Pumas, le 9 novembre à Udine, pose un cas de conscience.

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Un sélectionneur étranger doit-il chanter l’hymne de son pays de travail, ou peut-il malgré tout entonner son hymne national ?

L’ancien joueur du Stade Français a choisi : « Mon investissement auprès de l’équipe d’Italie est total, ma motivation au maximum. Évidemment, je vais chanter l’hymne argentin parce que cela reste mon pays, mais je serai investi à 100% en faveur de l’Italie », a-t-il dévoilé en conférence de presse.

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Quesada, arrivé à la tête de l’Italie au lendemain de la Coupe du Monde 2023, a déjà connu pareille situation. Adjoint de Marc Lièvremont auprès de l’équipe de France entre 2008 et 2011, il avait accueilli les Pumas avec le survêtement frappé du Coq, pour une rencontre à Marseille (victoire 12-6 des Bleus).

L’hymne argentin, l’un des plus puissants du rugby mondial

« À ce moment-là, ça m’a fait assez bizarre. Aujourd’hui en revanche je suis beaucoup plus tranquille par rapport à ça. »

Le technicien n’a pas précisé s’il allait simplement fredonner l’hymne argentin, ou chanter à pleins poumons comme ont l’habitude de le faire les joueurs.

Il faut dire que l’ « Himno Nacional Argentino », puisqu’il se nomme tout simplement ainsi, est sans doute l’un des plus puissants et prenants du rugby mondial, et les Pumas y ajoutent beaucoup de passion.

Il n’est pas rare que les premières notes fassent déjà couler les larmes sur les joues de quelques joueurs, serrés les uns contre les autres, droits comme des i.

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Sa longue introduction va crescendo puis ouvre sur des paroles qui retracent l’histoire de l’indépendance de l’Argentine.

Dans sa version raccourcie, l’hymne se termine par les paroles suivantes : « Coronados de gloria vivamos, o juremos con gloria morir ! » (« Vivons couronnés de gloire, ou promettons de mourir avec gloire »).

Généralement les joueurs s’époumonent sur la deuxième partie du refrain, répétée trois fois. De quoi donner un sacré coup de fouet aux joueurs, et des frissons à n’importe qui.

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RedWarriors 3 hours ago
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I think we need to call out the red card non-decision here and acknowledge the damage that France, through Galthie, have done to confidence in the officaiting and citing process.

It started when Garry Ringrose had club matches included in his ban following similar precedents for (Atonio, Haouas, Danty) who were all carded/cited in match just before fallow week and club matches counted. Ntamacks citing was in week 1 and harder to demonstrate availability for club match with another International match between. Preceednt ~(O’Mahony 2021) was followed. Reading the written decision for Ntamack shows that Galthie understood this perfectly. Yet after the Ringrose ban included club matches, Galthie publicly goes berserk screaming ‘Injustice (against France”. Again, he knows the precedents for Ringrose are all French and indeed the only person preceding Ntamack to have club matches count in that situation was France’s Willemse.

The media swallowed this up wholesale and the story started circulating and being added to without a single journalist/pundit (except rush Mirror) actually reading the Ntamack decision. Sneaky Ireland had better briefs than honest naive France was one random addition by a pundit which becamse accpeted fact without checking etc and added to the circulation.

Angered by losing his star player Galthie again lashes out. He knows know he can de facto attack individual players, the media won’t intervene and as long as he doesnt directly attack an individual official he will stay out of trouble.

So he attacks players who then het threatened by some lunatic French supporters online. Ireland are ‘Butchers’ apparently. The passive head contact earning Nash a yellow now becomes a double head hit on Barrassi, requiring a double red.

France who have more dangerous tackle citings under Galthie than all other six nations combined. They get more favourable outcomes than all other teams. poor France are now the victims of great injustice. It is farce.

But it paid off.

Mauvaka struck the Scottish Scrum half with a diving head butt in Sundays match. Its a clear red. Scotlands back line attack looked superiors to France’s and Scotland were there or there abouts.

What I can only assume is the chilling affect on Galthie’s public attacks Carley send it to the bunker. A deliberate head butt is a clear red on more than one count. There is no doubt, bo grey area.

If thats a red card do France win the match? I would say that Scotland are likely winners, which would have meant England winning the title.

Spilled milk now, but World Rugby, the citing commisioners and officials cannot allow big Unions to publicly intimidate the officiating process and attack individual players from other teams.

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