Former USA Limoges player Anthony Biscay returns to Beaublanc as an outsider with Anglet

Loyal audience, Peter Durcan …

“I would have liked to have stayed longer in Limoges, but for family and professional reasons I had to go back to the countryside earlier than expected,” notes the previous 3rd row. The country is the Basque Country, and more precisely Bayonne where Antoine Biscay took over his father’s bar-brasserie near Les Halles.
From the left bank of the Nive, keep following the results of the USAL. “Even if the city revolved around basketball, I keep the memory of a loyal audience that pushed us, of a club that wanted to structure itself, says the Basque, who arrived in Limoges late after not being held by Montauban, Federal 1 champion and on the way to the Pro D2. With USAL I experienced good sporting moments such as the victory against Périgueux, the draw in Villeneuve-d’Ascq against Lille. I also found my best friend, Peter Durcan ”.
Earlier this week Anthony Biscay traded via SMS with the Irish first half which he will sneak up on tomorrow night. “I thought I could stay longer, but the home defeat against Lannemezan (19-11) changed the plans. We will not have the midnight permit “, breathes the Bayonnais who arrived on the bench of the Anglet Olympique Rugby Club in December 2019.

“I was in rehab after a cruciate ligament rupture. Christophe Milhères has left his post, the management has offered me to take over, ”explains the coach who passed his coaching diplomas with a certain Adrien Buononato. A logical continuation for the Basque as demanding on the bench as he could be on the ground. “I have this flaw of putting a lot of pressure on myself, of being very strict with myself. I expect the same from my players, he admits. I didn’t like defeat when I was a player, I like it even less as a manager (laughs). With this difference that as a player we are able to empty ourselves, to evacuate when it is more difficult when we are coaches ”.

Antonio Biscaglia

Promoted to National 2 on the green carpet, AORC is “the smallest of this group, with the smallest budget, multi-active players and a workforce that has been beefed up late,” says Anthony Biscay, whose team is aiming for 6th. placed at a length of the USAL. “We play all our games as underdogs. For us it worked quite well at the start of the season with a bonus point in Niort, a win at the Bassin d’Arcachon and ahead of Périgueux, explains the co-coach with Sébastien Fauqué. But we are a young team. I felt we were fragile and the defeat against Lannemezan is a call to order. If we don’t play 200%, we have no edge. Nothing is bought ».
The English field is approaching this match “as an outsider against a team from Limoges that does not evolve in the same dimension. This is the fourth game of the block, we come to the end, with many breaks, continues Anthony Biscay. The defeat against Lannemezan changes the game of this away match. We have to show our true face ”. That of a team of temperament and character, like his coach.

Jean-Francois Darthoux