Friendly match Montauban – USAP: we open up at Sapiac

The USAP finds the ground this Friday evening (20:30), for its very first pleasant match of the time, in the Sapiac “basin” in Montauban.

“When the Perpignan crew will go to engage in in Montauban …” This music by the Jacques brothers, which made rugby admirers delighted in the 1970s, has absent a bit out of vogue. Considering that the advent of professionalism, the Montalbanais have performed significantly less with the French rugby elite. But a vacation to Sapiac is usually a special expertise. A tricky and inhospitable rugby pitch for any checking out workforce. Resuming the season in the famous “cup” is definitely the ideal way to evaluate their workforce, this Friday night August 12 (20:30), for David Marty and his staff. There is hardly ever a pleasant match in Montauban and Mathieu Acebes, who is starting his 17th period of major-flight rugby at Sapiac, is aware it superior than any individual. “Montauban is a historic club in our rugbyHe describes. We will occur throughout a crew motivated by the plan of ​​facing a Prime 14 club, in a hostile ecosystem. The chance for us to enter the year well, with collective benchmarks “.

Catalans will locate familiar faces in the Tarn-et-Garonne. That of the outside Jean-Bernard Pujol, who came to relaunch himself on the financial institutions of the Tarn. Or the physical trainer Nicolas Szezur, who returned to rugby after a sabbatical time. Montauban won his very first welcoming (12-7) versus Narbonne in Leucate.

David Marty will give the opportunity to specific himself to all his workers, apart from the Argentine internationals De La Fuente and Oviedo, who started off with the Pumas, and Taumoepeau who will return to Perpignan on August 17th. Seilala Lam is rested, as are the two new recruits Kélian Galletier and Victor Moreaux. Two independent combined teams (new-aged mixed) ought to each participate in one particular 50 %.

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