XV of France: “He is happy to be there”, Captain Charles Ollivon finds his troops against Japan

It floated thick, health constraints left the stands of the Stade de France desperately empty, and the Tricolores lost their dreams of coronation and a home game against Scotland (23-27). This March 26, 2021, Charles Ollivon left the lawn of Saint-Denis and the XV of France for, without knowing it then, a long blue eclipse. A year and a half away from his troops, the fault of a rupture of the cruciate ligament of the left knee with Toulon in June of the same year. An eternity on the scale of this group. Since then, the French have chained a summer tour in Australia, but above all experienced an autumn tour sublimated by a historic success over the All Blacks (40-25) before offering themselves a first Grand Slam for twelve years.