The third international line of Bordeaux-Bègles, Louis Picamoles, who will celebrate his 36 years in February, announced in an interview with the daily
L'Équipe
published on Wednesday that he would retire at the end of the Top 14 season. he also revealed what follow-up he wants to give to his career.
“I also found what I wanted to do next.
With my wife Maïlis, we are going to set up an organic goat farm and it is time to embark on this great project ”
, he reveals in daily sports.
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Strong links between the world of rugby and agriculture
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If this reconversion is surprising, it is ultimately a new illustration of the strong links that have united, for many years, the world of rugby and that of agriculture. Recently, the former three-quarter center of the Stade Toulousain and the XV of France, Yannick Jauzion, had launched after his professional career in the cultivation of ... ginseng. And to detail: "
I am an associate director in an insurance brokerage firm for companies, especially for farmers and agricultural cooperatives.
And I am also president of a company based in Seysses, south of Toulouse, France Ginseng, which produces ginseng roots and markets them.
We are the only ones to produce it on French soil, everything else is imported.
I was already involved in this company founded eight years ago before the end of my rugby career.
It was a continuation of my studies in agronomy. ”
I challenge anyone to come to a farm for a week and say it's a great hideout!
Adrien Pelissie
The Clermont hooker, Adrien Pélissié, has never hidden that at the end of his career, he will join the family farm located in Septfonds in the Tarn-et-Garonne, which covers nearly 200 hectares. A farm that produces cereals but also raises cows and ... sheep.
"If I didn't come back to the farm one day, I would have missed my life!"
he had proclaimed on the site of the ASM. And to hammer out:
"I know the work that a farm requires and when I hear that farmers are always complaining and living on European aid, it puts me beside myself. I challenge anyone to come to a farm for a week and say it's a great hideout! Agriculture builds rough and needy men. ”
Rugbymen-farmers before professionalism
And, before rugby turned professional in 1995, many French internationals were farmers.
We obviously think of the Spanghero brothers, raised on the farm, but also of the pillar Jean-Pierre Garuet and the hooker Daniel Dubroca, finalists of the 1987 World Cup. Closer to us, the French international Jessy Trémouliere, who had voted best player of the world in 2018, is also a farmer in the family farm, near Brioude in Auvergne.
A farm with no less than 48 dairy cows.
In the same vein, the Invivo group (national union of 192 agricultural cooperatives) recently became an official supplier of local products for the 2023 World Cup organized in France.
"
Rugby comes from there: from these terroirs where we dare to tradition, where each gesture is in respect of nature and the celebration of its excellence
"
,
explained Claude Atcher.
Invivo brings together 5,800 employees across 19 countries.