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Vakatawa quitte déjà Bristol

Virimi Vakatawa était arrivé à Bristol au début de la saison 2023-2024 (Photo by Patrick Khachfe/Getty Images).

Les Bristol Bears ont confirmé le départ de Virimi Vakatawa, un an après son arrivée à Ashton Gate.

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L’ancien international tricolore, 32 ans, avait paraphé un contrat d’une saison en septembre 2023. Cette signature avait marqué son retour sur les terrains, un an après avoir été contraint à la retraite à cause d’un problème cardiaque.

Le trois-quarts centre, 31 sélections avec les Bleus, compte 19 apparitions sous le maillot des Ours l’an dernier, marquant quatre essais au passage. Son équipe a raté de peu les demi-finales de la Gallagher Premiership, le championnat anglais, prenant la 5e place de la phase régulière.

Vakatawa a participé à la rencontre face aux Fidji avec les Barbarians, samedi, reformant le temps d’un match le duo qu’il formait avec Gaël Fickou sous le maillot du Racing 92 et de l’équipe de France.

La prochaine destination du joueur n’a pas été dévoilée.

Merci Pat (Lam) pour m’avoir donné la chance de jouer ici, à Bristol », a déclaré Vakatawa après l’annonce de son départ.

« L’équipe est géniale et j’ai adoré mon séjour ici, même s’il n’a duré qu’une saison.

« Les gars et tous les employés du club ont été tellement gentils et accueillants avec moi depuis le tout premier jour, je leur en suis très reconnaissant.

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« Enfin, aux supporteurs : merci pour votre soutien tout au long de l’année. Je souhaite à Pat et aux gars le meilleur pour le futur. Merci beaucoup. »

Pat Lam, le directeur du rugby à Brisol, a ajouté : « Virimi a été remarquable sur et en dehors du terrain. Il a largement rendu au club la confiance qu’on lui a témoignée en lui donnant l’occasion de redevenir joueur professionnel.

« Faire ce qu’il a fait après tous les défis et les obstacles qu’il a rencontrés, après avoir été éloigné des terrains, ça montre l’homme qu’il est. Ç’a véritablement été un plaisir et un privilège d’avoir un joueur de la qualité et de l’expérience de « V » au sein des Bristol Bears. »

Après un début de carrière au rugby à VII sous le maillot de l’équipe de France, Virimi Vakatawa était devenu international à XV en 2016, et avait rejoint le Racing 92 en 2017.

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Replacé de l’aile au centre, il était un cadre des Bleus de Fabien Galthié, incontournable par sa capacité à trouver des espaces et surtout à faire jouer après lui.

Cependant, il annonçait la fin de sa carrière de manière totalement inattendue en septembre 2022, après la détection d’une anomalie cardiaque.

Il avait signé à Bristol en septembre 2023 après avoir obtenu le feu vert des autorités médicales de la RFU, la fédération anglaise.

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'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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