Dupont, title best player in the world, overflows with ambition
Guillaume MARION, Media365: published on Saturday, December 11, 2021 at 9:55 a.m.
Titled best player in the world 2021 by World Rugby, Antoine Dupont, the scrum half of Toulouse and the XV of France, does not intend to stop there and dreams big.
But where will Antoine Dupont stop? Author of a superb double with Toulouse this season, following their success in the Top 14 and in the Champions Cup, the scrum half also shone with the XV of France, who notably beat New Zealand in the Fall Tour (40-25). At 25 years old, the number 9 has just been awarded by World Rugby the title of best player in the world in 2021. While according to the Olympic Midi, Dupont is thinking about doing the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris with the team. from France to VII, the person concerned returned his personal distinction. ” Honestly, it never crossed my mind that one day I could be voted the best player in the world. And then I’m not the style for me to set career goals like this, “said the” Minister of the Interior “, who will start this Saturday in Cardiff in the Champions Cup.
“To do as well as in 2020 would be strong”
“At 18, when I was starting out with the pros, it was something utopian. The appetite comes with eating. I look at the others and I said to myself: “Did that to him, why not me?” It may have crossed my mind in 2020, when I won the trophy for best player of the VI Nations. We’re having a big season with the France team. There hadn’t been a World Rugby award that season, but people were starting to talk about me more internationally. Without having prepared myself for it, nor having made it a goal, I told myself that I was in the race, following recognized Dupont, during an interview with L’Equipe. (…) Often, in interviews, I am asked what people can wish for me for the years to come? Already doing as well as the one before that would be strong. When you have known the titles, that you evolve within a team which gains, you do not want any more to fall back in the mediocre or to bother you. “