The meeting, before Euro 2024 handball, had been set in Rueil-Malmaison (92) by Danone, one of its partners, and this cannot be invented: we found Melvyn Richardson at the entrance to the “Luka-Karabatic room”, named after the captain of the Blues.
In France, there are also Richardson rooms: Jackson, not yet Melvyn.
When we arrived, we challenged ourselves not to talk about his dad with Melvyn Richardson.
Broken promise: how can we not mention the man who has the record number of selections for the French team (417), the Barjots star who took French handball into another dimension with the world champion title in 1995?
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“When I was little
(Melvyn was 11 when Jackson stopped his career in 2008)
, I didn't realize what my father represented.
I noticed it for his last match in Chambéry, all the things that were around.
There I said to myself:
Oh yeah, dad, he's someone
,” confides the FC Barcelona right-back, who in this Euro plays as Dika Mem's understudy but remains valuable every time he comes on.
Author of 15 goals, he is the sixth top scorer for the Blues since the start of the tournament, just behind Nikola Karabatic (16) but far behind his friend from Barcelona (35).
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