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Dupont, et maintenant le foot ?

Antoine Dupont joue au football pour s'échauffer pendant le captain's run du Stade Toulousain avant la finale de l'Investec Champions Cup contre le Leinster au Tottenham Hotspur Stadium le 24 mai 2024 à Londres, Angleterre. (Photo Patrick Khachfe/Getty Images)

Antoine Dupont aurait-il tous les talents ? Le demi de mêlée toulousain est « le meilleur à son poste, il n’y a plus de débats », comme le soulignait son coach Ugo Mola la semaine dernière.

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Il l’a prouvé à maintes reprises, il se débrouille plus que bien en demi d’ouverture. On a appris il y a quelques jours qu’il pourrait tenter sa chance au poste de trois-quarts centre cette saison.

Il a éclaboussé le tournoi olympique de sa classe et de son talent, décrochant la médaille d’or avec ses copains du Sevens.

Et si le meilleur joueur du monde 2021 passait au football ? Dans une courte séquence de l’entraînement du Stade Toulousain partagée sur les réseaux sociaux, on peut constater que Dupont et consorts ne sont pas maladroits avec un ballon rond.

Au cours d’un petit jeu d’adresse opposant notamment Thomas Ramos, Paul Costes, Dimitri Delibes et Naoto Saito d’un côté, Ange Capuozzo, Mathis Lebel, Blair Kinghorn et Antoine Dupont de l’autre, les joueurs se passent le ballon de la tête, avec comme objectif final de le placer dans un chariot métallique.

La première équipe échoue d’un rien, le demi de mêlée japonais butant sur le rebord du chariot.

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La deuxième réussit, l’action étant conclue par… Dupont évidemment.

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Nice one john - hit all the main pts. Physicality, kicking game and the kick chase/receipt in particular, and lineout which has not been highlighted enough imo, it was a huge momentum killer in the 1st half for the wallabies. Obviously skelton and valetini are irreplaceable as individuals, but I don’t agree that schmidt couldn’t have picked a more physcial pack and that he got his selections wrong. As you say slipper put in a great shift and for mine Allan was probably the best player in gold, but Bell should’ve started to help fill the valetini-sized ball carrying hole. Lukhan isn’t the specimen skelton is, but he is a hell of alot closer to it than jeremy williams who toiled, but was outclassed wheres lukhan has had 3 good shifts against the lions now. Its telling that pete samu has seemingly been dropped into the squad overnight, who would’ve been a step up in weight class and experience to Nick CDC also. Re Mcreight: I thought he was also in the wallabies top 5 performers to be honest, yes he dropped some ball, but he was critical defensively at the breakdown and lions probably would’ve had another try if he was off the field. I think the call went out at halftime to shut him down, because anytime he went near a ruck the lions flooded about 4 blokes into it to nullify him at the expense of quick ball, knowing they can go again at the next ruck such was his presence.

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