Recently asked about the possibility of sometimes playing in the centre this season, as Ugo Mola, the coach of Stade Toulousain, had recently hinted, Antoine Dupont had wanted to be reserved. “Ugo likes to talk to the media and answer questions (laughs). You don’t always have to listen to him. There is something to take and leave in what he says. With the goals at club level and the France team, I would already have enough things to manage,” he said, adding: “I’m curious in everyday life and on the pitch. I try to move and find other freedoms even though I already have a lot of them.”
This freedom and curiosity are such that Antoine Dupont is preparing to cross the Atlantic to join the Los Angeles Chargers, an NFL franchise. The Toulouse scrum-half had left some clues on Wednesday by publishing a photo in which he is preparing his suitcase, the Chargers jersey on his back and his gold medal with the France rugby 7s team neatly arranged. “Let’s go,” he wrote in the caption of this photo.
A three-week internship or a few days for Antoine Dupont?
According to the Rugbynistère website, the captain of Les Bleus will train for the next three weeks with the Californian franchise, author of a good start to the season with two wins and one defeat. The idea would be to prepare physically before returning to the Top 14 and then the France team. While a return to competition was hoped for at the beginning of October, as he had confided on Monday at the Nuit du Rugby, it could only take place on October 19, in Pau.
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