From rugby pitches to the carpentry workshop. The Covid-19 epidemic is impacting the entire economy. Including that of professional sports clubs. But some players do not have time to dwell on their fate. They must opt for a retraining to find a job, like Clément Lagain, who had been playing for 8 seasons at Colomiers.
“It’s very different, it really has nothing to do with it, explains the man who had despite everything already passed a carpenter’s CAP 10 years ago. Afterwards, I’m still happy to be there and to switch to a new life and to know where I can go unlike some who do not really know how to follow “. The former winger chose a one-year training course with Companions of duty.
Like him, 120 players found themselves unemployed at the end of this season. Three times more than usual. The rugby union accompanies them in this complicated period.
“We are faced with careers that are short, seven years on average and composed only of CDD, two years on average. So obviously, if we do not think about the after, we are going straight to the accident. C ‘is in this sense that Clément is an example. And I put it in the spotlight “, explains Mathieu Guidicelli, deputy general manager of Break-in, the union of rugby players responsible for defending the rights of professional players.
A reconversion accepted. At just 30 years old, the young dad assures that he has many other adventures to live, even if he does not give up rugby entirely. He will play, as an amateur, in a neighboring club.
