The center said Stop in September, to everyone’s surprise at Sporting. Tomorrow (3 p.m.), when he is now at the crossroads of the thirties, he will finally be on the bench for the first match of the Federal 2 SCD phases for ten years. Explanations.
No one expected him. But one evening in March, crampons in hand, Romain Barascud is reappeared in training. This Sunday, facing Casteljaloux in home dams, he will be replacing. “ It’s a sporting choice, Clament in chorus SCD coaches, Anthony Julian and Etienne Rous. Joran Vidal’s injury has forced us to make choices … “
“I didn’t want to”
Let’s go back a few months. Sporting plays a friendly match at the start of the season against Canton of Alban. Romain Barascud evolves in the center, but a few hours later, he called his coaches: “I had a kick in this match. I realized that I no longer wanted, no more passion and above all, more fun. I did not want to cheat”, he confides when he returns to grace in the Bleu et Blanc group. Romain Barascud made a long station wagon, to the greatest despair of his coaches who also saw the center post departing with the Kyrielle of injuries.
-And then came the click for him: “I started running, then lately, I made a 42 -kilometer trek and 3,000 meters of elevation over three days and that’s where I had my brain switched.”
“I take the place of some who were there all season”
Upon his return, the solid Decazevillois center took his courage in both hands and called Jérôme Accorsi, the club manager. “He told me that I could come back without problem.” Without bitterness, the group welcomed it: “I followed them of course and I realized that everything was missing, the friends, the club … In the end, even with a little apprehension when returning to training, everything went well. I even had as the impression that I had not left the club. Yet it is not super what I did …”
Avoid fault, half forgiven, but Romain Barascud knows that when he tramples the lawn tomorrow, his smallest gestures will be scrutinized, dissected. He must not be missed. “I know that I will have to give myself 200 %, especially since I take the place of some who were there all season.” It is the law of sport. The coaches had a difficult choice to make. Will he pay?
