“If I stayed at home, I would cry every day,” confides the Toulouse resident Mauvaka

2023-10-30 08:15:00

The hooker of the Blues and Stade Toulousain, Peato Mauvaka. MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP

The Blues hooker had asked to play again without delay in the Top 14 with his club. He explained why on Sunday evening.

The terrible disillusionment of elimination in the quarter-finals of the World Cup is still alive for Peato Mauvaka. The hooker played on Sunday evening – he came on in the 46th minute – with his club Stade Toulousain against UBB. At his request, as he told Canal +.

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«I was supposed to be on vacation, but if I stayed home I was going to cry every day. So I asked to resume directly after the shift. Ugo (Mola) was nice, he let me take overconfided the 26-year-old. I like to show everyone around me that I’m always in a good mood. But, after the quarter-final, it was tough. So I preferred to quickly resume, otherwise I was going to hang myself.» Before concluding on a happier note. “It’s nice to win again, especially.»