“Hugo Auradou is absolutely calm and determined,” assures the Pau coach

2024-10-06 05:49:00

The second row, indicted in Argentina for rape, returned to the field on Saturday with Section Paloise.

Hugo Auradou replayed his first rugby match this Saturday after his indictment in Argentina at the beginning of July, for “aggravated rape”. The second line, received with relative indifference by the Perpignan crowd, played 74 minutes before being replaced.

If the young man obviously did not speak (despite the media influx, more than 50 accreditations to follow his return), the coach of the Paloise Section, Sébastien Piqueronies, commented on Auradou’s performance after his team’s defeat against Usap (11-10).

Today he is completely serene and determined. And sturdy. Because you have to deal with all these events.

Sébastien Piqueronies

“He was very good, like last season. I found it quite effective for a replay match, full of energy. Very alert in the air domain. Today he is completely serene and determined. And sturdy. Why do we have to endure all these events”underlined the former France U20 coach. While ensuring that we have not “I had no particular fears” regarding public reception.

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Piqueronies then returned to the particular situation of his second line. “Since his return to the club (9 September, ed.), I have the feeling that the pattern remains coherent and serene. There were several phases. There was a phase when he was far from us. Subsequently there was a stage where he arrived. There was a phase where he trained individually. Subsequently there was a phase in which he trained collectively. Subsequently there was a new phase in which he participated in the preparation of the team, which performed without him. And here is the almost definitive step, sportingly, to put it on the field. Even there I felt, at each stage, calm and quite happy to play rugby.

«It’s a long process but one that everyone goes through.”

Before concluding. “It is rather the fruit of a long, step by step, generally coherent process. It is a long, long process for everyone, but which everyone takes on.”