All eyes have been on Antoine Dupont for several weeks. Captain of a French XV who is one of the favorites to win his first World Cup at home, the Toulouse native inevitably finds himself exposed but he would sometimes prefer the opposite. This is particularly the case with the media “Valeurs Actuelles” which decided to put it on the front page of its weekly edition but Dupont is opposed to conveying the values of this newspaper.
Antoine Dupont is at the heart of a political recovery. Used by Current Valuesa far-right media outlet, to defend the values of rugby, “ a rooted sport, which has become a model for society », the captain of the XV of France is unhappy. He made it known Friday evening by reposting a story Instagram of Jean Dujardin, with whom he shares the front page of the weekly, where the actor writes: “ France rugby yes, your values, no. No recovery. THANKS. » In 2021, during his first captaincy with the Blues, Dupont had already made the headlines by appearing in a banner where a full page was dedicated to Eric Zemmour. But each time, the scrum-half had not asked for anything. The actions of Current Values with the scrum half provoke indignation.
After the XV of France, their revenge is terrible https://t.co/a9sZnF9pYl pic.twitter.com/SEGIsMYayc
— le10sport (@le10sport) September 16, 2023
“I really don’t like it”
In The team this Saturday, Pierre Rabadan, former third row and now deputy for Sports and the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games at Paris town hall, has stepped up to the plate. “ It really displeases me that we can associate Antoine Dupont with Current Values and the ideas that this title puts forward. But he is a character who goes beyond the framework of rugby, because of his talent, his aura and his status as captain of the France team. So it doesn’t surprise me any more than that. Unfortunately, this is the price of glory. The guys are surfing the profile of Antoine, a guy called Dupont, who comes from the countryside. It’s a bit of their breeding ground. This is all done in a very thoughtful way. It’s strategic and political “, he lamented. Bakary Méité also expressed his dissatisfaction in the columns of the sports daily.
“It’s sad and it disgusts me”
« This is typically recovery. I imagine that if Sekou Macalou had been captain of the France team, he would not have been on the front page of Valeurs contemporains, or perhaps for the wrong reasons. This headline also echoes all the racist and nauseating comments that accompanied the latest Adidas advertising campaign (This is new rugby). I read incredible things, people who regretted the comparison with football, who said that rugby should definitely not become football. In the meantime, footballers have been world champions twice, and we still haven’t. Twice with people from diverse backgrounds. In rugby, I sometimes have the impression that we are happy that this diversity exists, because it is useful, but above all it should not represent the world of rugby. It’s sad and it disgusts me, clearly, but we’re not going to let that bother us. “, declared the former third row of the French Stadium. The position ofAntoine Dupont remains clear from a political point of view, he who had signed a platform calling not to vote for Marine Le Pen during the last presidential elections.
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