Rugby.Who are the lightest players in the Top 14?Discover the first 10 in the ranking

By Simon Galinier published leactu rugby my news

The 2021-2022 Top 14 season opens this Saturday, September 4, 2021. To keep you going, Actu Rugby invites you to discover the top 10 of the lightest players in the French championship.Proof that rugby is not just a Golgoths sport.

1. Matéo Jeune-Joly (USAP): 68 kg

If he is not (yet) the best known in the Top 14, the young Mélée de Perpignan, Matéo Jeune-Joly (19), is the lightest player in the French championship.Appeared 8 times in Pro D2, last season (a test marked), the player trained in Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie (Gard), then passed through the Montpellier training center, has a pocket template (1,69 m; 68 kg), which is eager to discover in Top 14.

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2. Teddy Iribaren (Racing 92): 70 kg

Teddy Iribaren is 1.70m from mischief.Like a good melee half, he bases his game on spontaneity and initiative thanks to a good speed and an ability to sneak into the smallest space.Excellent scorer, the player trained in Grentour and Balma, then passed through the Toulouse stadium training center, knew the professional world in Tarbes (Pro D2) in 2011, before making Montpellier (2014-2015),Brive (2015-2017) and Racing 92. The native of Toulouse had the chance to celebrate his first two capes in blue this summer, during the XV tour of France in Australia, coming into play in place of BaptisteCouilloud during the first two tests against the Wallabies.

Gela aprasidze (Montpellier): 70 kg

Far from the measurements of Georgian Golgoths, Gela Aprasidze is a pocket format (1.75 m; 70 kg) which started rugby at Iveria Tbilisi at the age of 12.Very quickly, he joined the Lelo Saracens Tbilissi to perfect his training, before putting his suitcases in Montpellier in 2017, as an hope.Since his arrival in Hérault, the Georgian international (23 years old; 34 selections) has played 12 games in all competitions, including only 3 as a holder, and remains in the shadow of Benoît Paillaugue and Cobus Reinach, even if heis a framework for the Georgian selection, since at only 21 years old, it already has more than 20 selections with the Lelos.

Martin Page-Ro (Stade Toulousain): 70 kg

Martin Page-Relo returned to the Toulouse stadium this summer after being loaned last year to Carcassonne (Pro D2) where he played 21 games, including 8 as a holder (a registered test), alongside his ex-teammate of the hopes of the Toulousain stadium, the opener Baptiste Mouchous, who, for his part, definitively engaged with the Audois club.This season, the young 22-year-old melee half, trained in Isle Jourdain, should only have crumbs to put himself under the tooth on the side of Ernest-Wallon, behind Antoine Dupont, Alexi Balès and Baptiste Germain.

5. Alexis Levron (Pau): 71 kg

Revelation of the first summer step of the In EXTENSO SUPERSEVENS 2021 in Aix-en-Provence, the Palois Alexis Levron splashed this competition of his talent and his devastating hooks.This young scrum half (20 years old) lively and with high potential joined the Béarn this summer, from Vannes, where he had only played 45 minutes in Pro D2 last year (5 games).Originally from Nantes, it was selected with France 7 development in 2019 and should enter the rotation of the Paloise section this season, alongside Jules Le Bail and Thibault Daubagna.We could notably see it in a Cup challenge.

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6. Arthur Retière (La Rochelle): 72 kg

For a template like his, Arthur Retière (1.70 m; 72 kg) has an unusual percussion force.Thanks to its vivacity, its confusing support and its particularly low center of gravity, he manages to sneak into the opposing defenses and make differences.Instinct player and a real devourer of space, the international (1 selection) which started rugby in Nuits-Saint-Georges (Côte-d'Or) is also capable of evolving in several positions, at the wing, at the scrum or back.

Thomas Berjon (La Rochelle): 72 kg

Arthur Retière teammate at the Rochelais stadium, Thomas Berjon (23) is also a small size (1.72 m, 71 kg) lively and electric.A native of Puilboreau (Charente-Maritime), he joined the yellow and black in 2010 in U13.Since then, he has evolved in all the youth teams of the club before knowing his first professional match sheet in October 2018 against Enisi in Challenge Cup and to sign his first professional contract at the 2020 off -season. Currently, he is going through his diplomascoach and joined the technical staff of the Villeneuve-les-Salines club (honor promotion) in the Rochelaise suburbs.

Matteo Rodor (USAP): 72 kg

Born on Reunion Island, the young opening half of Matteo Rodor (22) started rugby at the Salé Rugby Club pond before disembarking in Catalonia and USAP, at the age of 11.Since then, he has experienced all the youth teams from Perpignan to start in professional team, in 2019, in the CUP challenge.

Victim of a breakdown of the cross -knee cross ligaments in November 2020 against Béziers, he has not repressed the land since.This season, he will compete with South African Tristan Tedder and Argentin Patricio Fernandez to lead the USAP game and should take advantage of the CUP challenge to post the tip of his nose.

9. Santiago Arata (Castres): 73 kg

Landed in Castres in the summer of 2020, coming from Peñarol, the Uruguayan international scrum Santiago Arata (24 years old; 43 selections) took time to adapt to the physical requirements of the Top 14, before finding its rhythm ofCruise at the end of last season.For his first season in France, he still played 19 games with the CO (9 tenure), even scoring his first try to Jean-Dauger, against Bayonne.The former Houston Sabercates player (MLR) has everything to be the worthy heir to Rory Kockott in the Tarn and become the new darling of Pierre-Fabre.

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10. Benoît Paillaugue, Gabriel Ngandebe (Montpellier) and Clovis Le Bail (Pau): 74 kg

Á la 10^e place, on retrouve trois joueurs pesant 74 kg : le demi de mêlée et buteur de Montpellier, Benoît Paillaugue et son coéquipier héraultais Gabriel Ngandebe, ainsi que le numéro 9 de la Section Paloise, Clovis Le Bail.

You will understand: this ranking mainly includes melee and wingers with reduced templates, since only one opener is there.Which seems logical and coherent to say the least.

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