When you get promoted to the Top 14 and beat the championship leader, that’s something to celebrate. But then, when you get promoted and run home after beating Bordeaux, La Rochelle and Toulouse, it’s even more celebrated! Obviously, Camille Lopez’s teammates did not wait for the comment to be addressed to begin the celebrations. Bayonne’s great rookie for this season, the former international was invited to the Canal + microphone to debrief the match. However, a scene worthy of an interview with the Barbarians took place on Jean Dauger’s lawn. Drowned in good spirits, the former Clermont player at first struggled to respond to the Canal Rugby Club. Indeed, his teammates were quick to come and tease him in front of the scrambled channel’s cameras.
. @ lopezmille64 and his teammates @avironrugbypro everyone wanted to pass into the #CRC 🤣😂#ABST pic.twitter.com/IEer3uHwuJ
– CANAL + Rugby (@CanalplusRugby) October 29, 2022
If we are to believe the different stories or posts of the players on social networks, the party continued in the locker room. With a beer in hand, held by the shoulders and singing in chorus, the Basque musicians celebrated their invincibility at home.
Happy with a great start to the season, Aviron Bayonnais and its main players still hold the wagon in the Top 14. With 21 points to their credit, skies and whites are in contact with the top of the standings. Before the match between Union Bordeaux-Bègles and RC Toulon, they were just 3 points away from Stade Français, second in the league.RUGBY. TOP 14. The expert Camille Lopez goes down to Bayonne
This success contrasts with the statements that had been made to the Basque management before the start of the season. Indeed, in an article published on October 29, club leader Philippe Tayeb said he was asked if he had “opened a retirement home”. collected in The group, these comments echo the arrivals of Camille Lopez and Maxime Machenaud, both 33, this summer. But given the joy of winning, qualities still intact and visible on the pitch, they still seem far from retiring.
