Antoine Dupont is planning a season-long vacation after the Paris Olympics

In parentheses – at the age of 26, the 2021 FIFA World Player of the Year is currently reflecting fully on the rest of his career, while in one year he hopes to seize the World Cup and Olympic Games in Paris in rugby sevens.

Is Antoine Dupont completely on his knees, at only 26 years old? The best player in the world in 2021 anyway has a very full sporting agenda, especially for next year, between the World Cup in France and his dream of competing in the Olympic Games in Paris in rugby sevens. And so on send announces that the scrum-half plans to suspend rugby for a season. This is indeed a line of thought for the tricolor rugby icon, whose contract with Stade Toulouse runs until 2028, explains the regional daily.

Already mobilized from all sides, as commander V.I Toulouse and a major player for the Blues (47 picks), Antoine Dupont He realizes that he is risking experiencing the most exciting/challenging sequence of his young career. So he can resort to interruption, like the New Zealander Richie McCaw Or Australian Michael Hooper before him.

If he chooses to take a break during the 2024-2025 season, he can either cut out rugby altogether, or try out as a freelancer for a few months in Japan, in a lucrative, much less competitive Top 14 tournament, with a calendar (…) Read more in 20 minutes

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