“Victorious Return: Gabin Villière’s Impatience to Perform for Toulon Despite Injuries”

Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Tuesday April 25, 2023 at 10:44 am

Victim of two fibula fractures in quick succession, Gabin Villière (27) is preparing to return to competition with Toulon. The international winger of the RCT, who admits that he wondered if he was going to return one day, does not hide his great impatience to find the land.

D-Day is fast approaching for Gabin Villière (27). Injured a year ago in the Challenge Cup final, the Toulon international winger has hardly played since. Operated on three times, victim of… two fractures to a fibula in quick succession and another to a hand, in the fall when he had just resumed, and this in the same period of time, the native de Vire, also deprived of the last 6 Nations Tournament, since he had relapsed in full preparation, has lived through a little hell since this first glitch, at an ankle, last May. It is therefore with immense impatience that Villière is waiting to return to the lawns of the Top 14. But not without a very clear objective in mind. “I want to come back and bring to this group. Because that’s the goal. It’s not just to come back from injury. It’s to come back and perform, because otherwise it’s useless” , confides the RCT player as part of the rugby podcast of RMC Sport “Between the Potos”.

Villière: “It’s part of me, I won’t be able to put the brakes on”

And when many would resume with the handbrake after having known so many misfortunes in such a short time and understood that their game had something to do with it, the RCT player has no intention of modifying one iota the way he behaves on the pitch. But if he knows that she can play tricks on him, and has paid a high price for it. “We have wingers who are more in avoidance. I’m more in contact, in rucks, in situations which can be a little more ‘risky’ for injuries. But that’s part of me. I don’t ‘wouldn’t be able to put the brakes on for the matches”, admits the winger who never gives up his helmet in a match, and admits that he sometimes wondered during his long recovery if he was not doing all that for nothing. “We wonder if we will manage to come back and find our place. So there is a lot of doubt that sets in. On the second, we even wonder if we will simply be able to play rugby again.”

Villière: “I’m in a hurry to live this end of the season”

He finally managed to “find the positive” – ​​”it was nobody’s fault, you have to keep your head up” – to tell himself that he would eventually reap the fruits of “all his sacrifices”. However, it was necessary to point out to the winner of the 6 Nations Tournament with the Blues last year that his return, he was going to make it at the best time of the season. “At first, I didn’t realize it.” Today, this is the case, and for a competitor like Villière, moreover thirsty for titles, the timing is almost perfect in the end. “I am in a hurry to see the rest and to live this end of the season”, does not hide the former player from Rouen, in a hurry to make his team benefit, like the XV of France, from his qualities. He has been thinking about it since he was deprived of his favorite sport. “This line of sight is to go for titles, a Brennus, it is to win the Challenge Cup, it is to participate and win the World Cup. It motivated me a lot to work.”