“Don’t pass for pipes”: from Massy to the World Cup with Portugal, Mike Tadjer’s dream

2023-09-16 08:38:10

It was undoubtedly his destiny to play in a World Cup. At 34 years old, Mike Tadjer is in a way a symbol in himself of a planet that mixes and finds itself through rugby. Him, the hooker born in Massy, ​​who grew up in a working-class neighborhood of the Essonne city, son of a Syrian mother born in Madagascar and a father of Portuguese origin, then played through seven professional clubs all over France , from Racing to Agen, from Clermont to Perpignan, from Brive to Grenoble.