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Les Tongiens de Bordeaux Coleman et Tameifuna en tournée avec les Tonga

Par Willy Billiard

Il y a 29 jours

Le pilier droit des Tonga, Ben Tameifuna, plaqué lors du match de la poule B de la Coupe du Monde de Rugby France 2023 entre les Tonga et la Roumanie au Stade Pierre-Mauroy de Villeneuve-d'Ascq, près de Lille, dans le nord de la France, le 8 octobre 2023. (Photo by Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP) (Photo by SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP via Getty Images)

Après avoir été sélectionnés pour la tournée d’été avec l’équipe du Tonga, les deux Girondins Adam Coleman et Ben Tameifuna sont de nouveau convoqués avec leur sélection, cette fois pour la tournée d’automne.

Déjà titulaires face à l’Italie puis l’Espagne en juillet dernier, les deux membres du pack de l’Union Bordeaux-Bègles sont de nouveau appelés dans le groupe des « Aigles des mers » pour disputer trois rencontres au mois de novembre : le 9 novembre contre la Roumanie à Bucarest, le 16 novembre contre les USA à Chambéry et le 24 novembre contre la Géorgie à Tbilissi.

Deux Tongiens aux autres nationalités

Ancien international australien ayant évolué pendant six saisons en Super Rugby, puis expatrié en Angleterre où il a joué quatre années avec les London Irish, le deuxième-ligne Adam Coleman (33 ans) a rejoint l’Union Bordeaux Bègles (UBB), juste après la Coupe du Monde de Rugby 2023, qu’il a disputé sous les couleurs du Tonga, pays d’origine de son père.

Il compte 38 sélections pour l’Australie entre 2016 et 2019 et 5 pour les Tonga.

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Tonga’s squad for their Northern Hemisphere Tour.
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* 9 November: v Romania (Bucharest)
* 16 November: v USA (Chambery)
* 24 November: v Georgia (Tbilisi)#IkaleTahi pic.twitter.com/Bzl7c7K9R3
— Pacific Rugby Hub (@pacificrugbyhub) October 23, 2024

Le pilier « Big » Ben Tameifuna, 33 ans lui aussi et natif de la Nouvelle-Zélande, compte 37 sélections avec les Tonga depuis 2017. Sa convocation internationale intervient deux semaines après que l’UBB a annoncé la prolongation de son contrat jusqu’en 2027.

Arrivé en France en 2015, il compte 106 matchs sous les couleurs du Racing 92 et 104 pour l’instant pour Bordeaux depuis 2020.

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