And suddenly, deliverance. It is around 10:55 p.m. on Saturday March 15, and the French male rugby team comes, by winning in difficulty against Scotland (35-16), to win this title in the 2025 nations tournament which had been running it for three years. The match has been finished for several minutes but the 78,266 supporters of the Stade de France resist the cold, wishing to commune with this team which, this winter, capsized the country. Together. Like this group, which has, like only one man, surrounded Antoine Dupont, absent from the match following his serious knee injury, but present to lift the trophy. “We have seen a lot of the other teams lift trophies lately, so when it’s our turn, we savor”summarizes the back Thomas Ramos.
The scenario was already partly written since Dublin, when, on March 8, the men of Fabien Galkié had done almost hand on the tournament by delivering a rugby lesson to the Irish and the world oval (42-27). Everything had gone there, from iron defense to excessive attacks, with a dose of French flairbut also of dramaturgy, with the injury of Maestro Antoine Dupont.
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