How to motivate your players at the start of the season?
Big question.
There is the classic way, with a speech.
Or there is the method, to say the least, original used by Jacky Lorenzetti, President of Racing 92. The former Welsh three-quarter center Jamie Roberts (94 caps), who played for the Ciel et Blanc between 2013 and 2015, revealed, in a program broadcast on the English site
Rugby Pass
, how the leader of Altosecano had done it at the start of the 2014-2015 fiscal year.
And to explain that Lorenzetti had squarely brought tigers (in cages) to the club's training center to motivate his troops, so that they
"attack the season like tigers".
“During my second season there, they brought caged tigers to the Plessis-Robinson training center,” he
says
.
He
(Lorenzetti)
fed these tigers in front of the players.
Everyone was like, "What the hell is going on here?"
(laughs)
It was amazing to see that.
Afterwards, he told us that they wanted to see us attack the season like tigers.
(laughs) He's so unique. ”
"An adorable man", according to Zebo
An offbeat anecdote to say the least which marked Jamie Roberts and which made Irish rear Simon Zebo laugh a lot, also present on the show and who will leave Racing 92 at the end of the season.
"He's an adorable man
,
"
smiles the former back of Munster (where he will return next year) and of the XV of Clover, referring to Lorenzetti. The Hauts-de-Seine club is opposed to La Rochelle, Friday evening (8:45 p.m.), in the semi-final of the Top 14 at the Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Lille.