To succeed.
Go.
Come back.
Gonzalo Quesada did not choose the easy way by agreeing to take over the Stade Français three years after leaving the Parisian club crowned with two titles (French champion in 2015, European Challenge in 2017).
A club which, last season, was last in the Top 14, saved from relegation by the cessation of competitions caused by the epidemic.
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The announcement of his return last June sparked a huge wave of enthusiasm among supporters, imagining him as a savior.
With the certainty that he would do as well as during his first visit (2013-2017).
“I remember my first press conference.
All the questions revolved around that.
I knew there would be a little pressure, but there it didn't smell good, he
tells
Le Figaro
, laughing.
I was starting to think to myself that maybe I hadn't made the right decision when I came back.
I went home in the evening thinking: “Wow, maybe it's me who doesn't fully appreciate how difficult this challenge is”… ”
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A questioning quickly swept aside.
Because Gonzalo Quesada knows why he agreed to leave the Argentine Super Rugby franchise (the Jaguares) to respond to the call of Thomas Lombard, the new CEO of the Paris club.
“I had contacts for more stable projects, with more resources, where you tell yourself that it will work, where you put yourself in less danger.
Stade Français was the less rational choice.
Coming back to a club where it went rather well, with supporters who will think that, by magic, everything will be better, these were not the ideal conditions.
But my career choices show it, I don't calculate.
I take what attracts me.
To live human adventures, strong stuff.
Rugby is first and foremost a story of sincere men.
So I favored the affective, emotional, even, I would say.
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