Arrested since the start of the season by an Achilles tendon injury which did not allow him to fully express himself, Aurélien Beco has decided to end his career. At 35, Captain Columérin confides in his situation and his future.
It is always a special moment in the career of an athlete. Choose the moment of its release. Aurélien Beco, captain of Colomiers whose jersey he has worn since 2011, decided. Victim of a partial injury to the Achilles tendon which has handicapped him for many months and which put him to a standstill last summer (he only played two scraps of a match in Béziers and against Grenoble this past summer). season), he understood that this 2020-2021 exercise, which was to be his last, was well and truly over before its time. And his career too. So, death in the soul but lucid, he announced to his teammates during the month of February that the hour of his sports retirement had come.
This season was to be your last. It will be, but not quite as you imagined.
Indeed, I had noted last year that this season would be my last. I found that we had a powerful group, I too felt in good shape and I therefore wanted to live fully one last season. But in the end I saw the opposite.
Your Achilles tendon got the better of you.
Yes, I have a 50% tendon injury in my right foot. It has been several seasons that I was embarrassed by tendonitis but here, the injury is more serious.It started last summer, during the preparation and it got worse against Grenoble (December 10, 2020, Editor’s note) where I felt a shock on the last action, then I felt the same as I followed in training.
Are you planning to have the operation?
Yes, the operation is being considered, it is necessary for my comfort and to be able to continue to practice a physical activity. There, as soon as I run, I feel pain if I force too much.
We see you every day training in the weight room or running around the fields, it should not be easy to live on the margins of the group.
Indeed, it’s a bit difficult but it allows me to still be with the group, to keep in touch and it gives me a semblance of activity (smile). Playing rugby is what I love to do. I thought I could still have fun one season… Alas, no. But I thank the staff and the leaders for allowing me to live this last exercise even if it is not as I wanted it.
You wanted to announce your decision to your teammates before the match in Rouen, it must have been a complicated moment I imagine …
These are special moments, moments that mark like when we close a chapter. And if it was a singular moment for me, I insisted that my personal case did not count but that the most important was the season of the team. We have something beautiful to experience. We must maintain this remarkable state of mind that drives us so that this group can create some great memories this season.
Colomiers is indeed very well placed to win the qualification.
Yes, we have to take responsibility for the fact that we can finish in the top 6. We can. A qualification and a play-off at home would be a great goal and a reward for the whole club. We must remain ambitious because we have a role to play. We can also aim for 4th place even if we are not the only ones considering it.
Isn’t that a terribly frustrating situation for you?
it is especially when it comes to the match. But in my head, this retreat has taken place. And then I have a privileged role of supporter, I am still with them and I encourage them to give their all because there is at the end something exciting to experience.
You seem to be keeping your spirits up, that’s good.
Yes, I am fine. It is important to bounce back, I will set myself other challenges, set myself new goals. As an athlete, I used to operate like this. I am a school teacher, I obtained a bachelor’s degree in management at Toulouse Business School and at the moment, I am following my training for the DEJEPS at Creps de Toulouse. So I have prospects.
Basque happiness …
Ten seasons in the Columérin jersey left him with great memories, encounters, joys, sorrows. A career in the jersey struck by the dove marked by two matches which come back to him as soon as we open the cupboard with memories. “I can not forget this semi-final of accession against Bayonne to Jean-Dauger (May 29, 2016, 28-16 for Bayonne, Editor’s note). The stadium was full, the match had been intense and magnificent”, se remembers Aurélien Beco who does not forget either the success of his team on the lawn of Aguilera, against Biarritz Olympique (21-18 April 12, 2019, Editor’s note), “a victory that came at the right time in this difficult season, complicated and which had given us enormous joy before ensuring the maintenance a few weeks later against Soyaux-Angoulême. ” Two memories that have the Basque Country in common. “A very beautiful place, right?”, He concludes with a smile.X.T.
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