seriously injured in the knee in 2021, the third-line of Toulon had to rebuild itself to find the Blues. After a great performance against Australia, he will be a holder against South Africa again on Saturday in Marseille.
by Valentin Moinard
Charles Ollivon is not a blue among the Blues. International since 2014, selected twenty-five times, the 29-year-old third line is one of the “former” of the France group. However, he admits having had “chills” when entering the lawn of the Stade de France, November 5, to face – and beat (30-29) – Australia. He could have others, Saturday November 12 at 9 p.m., at the Marseille Vélodrome stadium, before scraping against South Africa, reigning world champion.
If fireworks, light games and music accompanying the release of the locker room have something to simmer a rugby player of 1.99 meters and 114 kilos, they do not explain everything to Charles’s emotion Ollivon. Victim of a break in the cross ligaments of the left knee in June 2021, the Toulonnais made, in Saint-Denis (Seine-Seine-Denis), a remarkable return to the XV of France “Premium”. Eloimated from the fields until March, he only found the Blues the following summer, during a tour in Japan where the coach, Fabien Galkié, had invited many second knives to leave his finest blades at rest.
“Le Grand Charles” only participated in the margin in the perfect period of the Blues, a series – in progress – of eleven success. Above all, it was by far that he attended, in March, at the Grand Chelem, the first French trophy for twelve years. “He preferred to take a step back. He regularly took news during the tournament, but it was hard for him to interfere in there while the guys live something huge,” said the winger Gabin Villière, her partner in selection and in club.
“To be crossed, that’s what is most complicated”
Located right next to glory, Charles Ollivon also lost in the process of the French team’s capital, entrusted to Antoine Dupont. And during the current fall tour, the rugby player, who fell in the hierarchy of the third tricolor line, owes above all his place in the departure XV to the absence on injury of François Cros, who chained the matches and victories with his friends Grégory Alldritt and Anthony Jelonch. Especially since a year of the World Cup in France, Fabien Garthié seems less and less inclined to modify his typical team. Faced with South Africa, the coach has also renewed the holders of the match against Australia.
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While his partners from the French team hardened laurels, Charles Ollivon worked, and worked hard. “Having the crusaders is what is most complicated,” says Gabin Villière. But Charles had a big mental force and worked hard to come back as quickly as possible at the high level. He never has gave up. “
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