A dive into the heart of this sanctuary.
At the Léon-Blum stadium, the changing rooms of the Rugby Club Alaric (RCA) embody a shared, sacred and intergenerational memory. This sanctuary is much more than a simple place to change the civilian outfit in sporting outfit. Much more than a place where you are about to defend its colors, garnet and yellow, against the opponent, swapping his clothes for a jersey.
These walls are silent but if this space could speak, it would tell the smells of camphor and ointment. It would restore the noise of iron crampons that slam against the ground, in unison, the motivation helmet, the words of the coaches, the captains, the leaders.
-In this unique place intersect all the generations of boys and girls. From under 6 years of rugby school to seniors and veterans. They enter it on pilgrimage before the games and sing, after a victory.
The changing rooms are a place of meditation that players like to share, but not understood by the uninitiated to this strange sport, rugby. A harsh sport, carried by gentlemen with a strange language that is both silent and noisy, in this closed room that we share between teammates, before showering, changing, telling yourself and redoing the match that we have just finished.
An atmosphere that the RCA by its president, Sébastien Darzens, wishes to introduce all the future Alaric rugby players to the Alaric.
