Rugby night: Antoine Dupont superstar

Who else ?

The verdict was clear.

The other two nominated - Australian second-row La Rochelle Will Skelton and Fijian winger of LOU Josua Tuisova - probably did not have much hope of hitting the pom-pom.

Canal +, organizer of this 17th Night of Rugby, had also asked the question to its Internet users.

For a plebiscite: 82% of the 1600 voters who preferred Antoine Dupont.

To discover

• Ranking Top 14

• Calendar and results Top 14

It is therefore logical that Antoine Dupont received, Monday evening at the Olympia the trophies of Best player of the Top 14 and Best French international (he was in contention with Grégory Alldritt and Anthony Jelonch, two players trained like him at FC Auch).

Each time elected by his peers, for unstoppable recognition.

First Frenchman elected best player of the Six Nations Tournament

At only 24 years old, the scrum-half never ceases to amaze. To impress. To surprise. Again Sunday evening, against Clermont, he stood out by giving a decisive little kick to his friend Romain Ntamack. Then escaping behind his scrum for an authoritative try, his first this season. Indispensable at the Stade Toulousain with which he won two Brennus shields (2019 and 2021) and a European Cup (2021). At the top. Already.

Last May, the Gersois received the prize of “European player of the year, awarded by the EPCR, organizer of the European cups.

The first French to win this honor.

A few months earlier, in November 2020, he was also the first Blue to be crowned best player of the Six Nations Tournament (since the establishment of this distinction in 2004).

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This season, the “Minister of the Interior” (his nickname for his propensity to always be ideally placed in support of the ball carrier who has pierced the opposing defensive curtain) will be even more expected. To lead the XV of France to victory in the Six Nations Tournament expected since 2010. For a new raid with the Stade Toulousain. To embody talent, French Flair, genius.

Complete player - strategist, soloist, solid defender - Antoine Dupont has it all.

Even among referees.

So Sunday evening, at the end of the clash between Toulouse and Clermont, the man in black, Maxime Chalon, went to compliment the one who was captain of the Rouge-et-Noir.

“We never hear you.

When you come to see me, it's for relevant things and you listen to my response.

So that's awesome.

Keep it up!

" We can not say it better.

Yes Mr. Antoine Dupont, continue for a long time to feast us, to surprise us, to make us get up from our seat.