With his outfit for the France team and his teenage face, he did not go unnoticed, at the Viviani gymnasium, in the middle of the Spinalian collective. The health crisis spares no one and the French cadet team is no exception to the rule. The closure of the CREPS (Sports Resource, Expertise and Performance Center) for one month deprives the champions of tomorrow of their training structures. Nancy’s Robin Lauriac , in his second year at the Strasbourg hopeful pole, had to adapt for this month of April because his season is not over.
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At the beginning of May, the 16-year-old young man and the French cadet team will play, in Zadar (Croatia), their final qualifying tournament for the European Championship scheduled for Albania in July. “There may not be a training camp,” says the passer. It is not excluded that we meet directly at the airport to go to Croatia! Where they will challenge, besides the host country, Belarus and Latvia. Only one team will win its ticket for the final phase. By then, Robin Lauriac will have maintained his good condition with SAS, not unhappy to have an additional player in training.
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“My father (Franck, a former good level volleyball player) and François (Mérel, the coach of Epinal) know each other well. I participate in the four weekly sessions and I go back and forth with Nancy in the company of Alexandre Klein. This is my taxi! », Jokes a young man very comfortable with his new training comrades. Nancy eliminated from the League B play-off by Plessis-Robinson ten days ago , Epinal was the best solution. “All the players of the France team are in the same situation. We managed to train until qualifying, ”adds this student by 1re economic and social which is one year ahead of its school curriculum.
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Trained by Elise Génicot in Nancy
The young man, who usually plays in National 2 with the Grand Nancy Volleyball, has had a funny season but puts it into perspective. “We could only play two league games before it stopped. Then, we contented ourselves with training with the pole. We are doing better than most athletes despite everything and I have made progress this season, ”notes the slender Nancy. Caught up by volleyball four years ago – “I tried many sports before, such as football” – by atavism, it passed into the hands of Elise Génicot at Grand Nancy Volley. “She taught me a lot of things,” he slips gratefully.
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Quickly installed on the pass, the Nancéien dreams of joining the Montpellier National Volleyball Center in the future. His dreams of professionalism do not make him lose sight of the realities of the very high level. “I want to become a masseur-physiotherapist and if it works in volleyball, it will be for the post-career,” says this admirer of Micah Christenson, the passer of the American selection, who plays in Modena in the Italian championship . Well in his head, Robin Lauriac is aware that nothing is taken for granted, despite this rooster that adorns his chest. “From the group of cadets formed a year and a half ago, there are only five left in the French team today,” observes the Meurthe-et-Mosellan.
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