15th from France: a record for Piel Piaret

Paul Roger, Media365: Published on Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 8:29 p.m.

Louis-Bel-Billard (20 years, 2 months and 25 days) will become the youngest French player in history to play a World Cup match on Thursday against Uruguay.

Six days after defeating the All Blacks at the Stade de France in their home World Cup opener (27-13), Fabien Galtier’s players will compete on Thursday evening at Stade Pierre Maurois in Villeneuve d’Ascq. Their second match in the competition against a Uruguayan team is more manageable than their first opponent. The French coach will also make 12 changes from the starting lineup that will face the New Zealanders. Louis Bel Bary’s chance to break the speed record. At 20 years, 2 months and 25 days, the Bordeaux winger is poised to become the youngest French player in history to feature in a Rugby World Cup. Which allows him to perform better than Roman Ntamack, aged 20 years and 143 days, when he faced Argentina in his first World Cup appearance during the 2019 edition in Japan.

“Everything is going too fast for me”

“I found out about it through the networks,” Belle-Béarre admitted on Tuesday at a press conference. This doesn’t mean much to me. I’m happy but that’s not what will help us be world champions anywayA record that doesn’t seem to affect him any more, and certainly less than his first major World Cup appearance, for his fourth selection: “Obviously I’m very happy. It’s true that everything has been going too fast for me for a while, I don’t necessarily realize it. “I will start this match with a lot of enthusiasm and a desire to have fun.” But the Business Administration and Management student has not forgotten that. His other goal is “to complete his studies.”. Personally, I feel good not thinking about rugby all the time. You have to do it smartly so that I can stay good at rugby and so that studying doesn’t take up too much of my time as well. “In the end, I would like to finish the training I started,” confided the person who had to take exams this month…