Mathieu Bastareaud was finally able to return. Confined to the fiftieth floor of a building in the heart of New York with his wife and son since mid-March, the French international told L'Equipe at the end of April to be in a hurry to return to France and "to be in an environment that I know " So it's been done since Saturday, Mathieu Bastareaud having left New York and the United States with his family to return to Toulon, as he announced on social networks.
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In a video of just under three minutes posted on Instagram, Bastareaud compiled his best memories of his adventure in the United States and in Major League Rugby with Rugby United New York, before ending with a message "See you soon (See you soon) to "Big Apple". An American experience which therefore proved to be shorter than expected (only five games played in the United States before the suspension of the championship for two tests), but which gave him a breath after a difficult last year in Toulon and a non selection for the World Cup in Japan.
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Lyon as the next destination
What's next for Mathieu Bastareaud? It means spending the rest of your forties in Toulon before joining Lyon where he has initialed a two-year contract. This will probably be an opportunity for him to continue to evolve in the third line, a position he discovered during a first freelance in Lyon and which he continued to occupy during his stay in New York. A passage that seems to have marked the player as much as the club. In a video posted on Instagram, the American franchise wanted to pay tribute to him on Friday. "It's not a goodbye, it's one soon. Thank you Basta! We will miss you, ”wrote Rugby United.
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It's not goodbye, it's see you later. Thank you, Basta! You will be missed! - Your Rugby United Family ❤️
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