The 24-year-old second row is the captain of the French XV which begins its Six Nations Tournament this Saturday at Le Mans against Ireland. “A very great source of pride,” breathes her father, Nisie Feleu, on the phone while he is 16,000 km from where his daughter is going to play on Saturday.
In Futuna, 3,900 inhabitants, a tiny piece of land in the middle of the Pacific, the smaller of the two islands making up Wallis and Futuna.