Comment il a customisé les crampons d’Ardie Savea
Ça fait un bon moment que Rémy Grosso a raccroché ses crampons. Alors il prend ceux des autres pour les customiser. L’ancien international français aux cinq sélections (entre 2015 et 2018) allie aujourd’hui sa passion pour le rugby et l’art.
« Depuis tout petit, j’ai toujours aimé dessiner. Au fur et à mesure, j’ai découvert d’autres techniques, d’autres outils, d’autres façons de faire. Je m’intéresse à la peinture, au graphisme, à la sculpture. Je me suis lancé dans la customisation. J’aime récupérer des objets anciens qui ont déjà servi pour essayer de les sublimer et quand ça a du sens en plus avec des parcours de vie ou de carrière sportive, ça me plaît », dit-il dans le Quotidien du sport.
Un message d’Ardie Savea sur Instagram
Inspiré par le street art, ce Lyonnais d’origine, passé par Castres et Clermont avant de finir sa carrière de joueur où il l’avait commencée et où il travaille toujours, a créé sa société, Trophée Sport.
Son hobby consiste à transformer des paires de crampons déjà utilisées en trophée. C’est ce qu’il a déjà fait pour Thomas Ramos, Demba Bamba ou Aurélien Rougerie. Il répond à des sollicitations et se lance dans son projet artistique.
L’affaire qui l’a marqué en 2023, c’est ce petit message reçu fin août sur son compte Instagram @tropheesport par Ardie Savea. « Les All Blacks s’entraînaient alors au stade Gerland. Ardie Savea m’a envoyé un petit message sur Instagram. On s’est rencontré, il m’a expliqué en détail ce qu’il souhaitait réaliser et je me suis mis au boulot », racontait Rémy Grosso à Midi Olympique.
Les motifs sont multiples et complexes : le prénom de ses enfants, des symboles de la Nouvelle-Zélande (drapeau et fougère), son numéro d’international, le symbole des Black Panthers, des références à « Game of Thrones »… Grosso a commencé à la bombe et a fini au feutre et au marqueur.
Après une dizaine de jours de travail, la remise de la paire s’est faite le 1er septembre à l’hôtel des Blacks à Lyon. Ardie Savea a pu la porter à l’entraînement jusqu’à la fin de la Coupe du Monde.
Cette seule confrontation que Rémy Grosso n’oubliera jamais
Pour Rémy Grosso, c’était un coup du destin qui le faisait remonter cinq ans en arrière. L’ailier était titulaire quand Savea était remplaçant lors de la victoire de la Nouvelle-Zélande 52-11 face à la France à l’Eden Park le 9 juin 2018.
Le troisième-ligne aile qui est devenu le Meilleur Joueur du Monde en 2023 n’avait alors joué qu’une quinzaine de minutes en fin de rencontre en doublure de Sam Cane.
Rémy Grosso, auteur du seul essai tricolore de la rencontre à la 7e minute, se souvient très bien de ce match dont il va garder des séquelles à vie.
Juste avant l’heure de jeu, il est en effet victime d’un plaquage dangereux du pilier droit des All Blacks Ofa Tu’ungafasi qui avait enfoncé son épaule dans le crâne du Français.
Sa double fracture du crâne frontal avait mis fin à sa tournée suite à laquelle il n’a plus jamais été sélectionné en bleu.
« J’avais eu une fracture au niveau du sinus frontal et de l’os ethmoïde », racontait-il à Midi Olympique. « En gros, j’avais l’arcade défoncée, qui tombait sur mon œil, et il a fallu toute la refaire. On m’a posé un petit grillage souple pour remodeler l’os dans sa forme initiale. Il y avait bien un nerf qui était touché, mais il n’était pas moteur, donc j’ai pu rapidement retrouver toutes mes sensations au niveau du visage. »
Depuis, il a toujours ce grillage souple sur le visage. Et Ardie Savea ses crampons dans sa collection.
Comments on RugbyPass
I’d say France was far more hard done by in the 2011 final than the All Blacks in this game. Joubert simply refused to call a penalty against the All Blacks in the last quarter even directing an All Black to drop a ball he picked up in an offside position rather than penalizing him. This article also totally discounts the efforts of PSTD. Ask Jordie how well he played. Or the backup flank who played hooker for the entire game. Siya was also a brilliant tackle by Richie from scoring a blinder. Pollard was also fantastic. Look I don’t like the boks style but the only thing more questionable than the content of this article is the timing of it. Get over it already
140 Go to commentsDad Marty was also a handy rugby player for Linwood back in the day. Great bloke. Sensational softball career.
2 Go to commentsWhat ifs are always dangerous. If you look at the game before Sam cane got sent of SA was dominating. You could make the argument the going down to 14 men rallied the troops and made them have to play to win which is always dangerous.
140 Go to commentsOmg… you are bruised And battered Benny. Stop crying … the scoreboard speaks. What a pathetic lover you are.. 🤣🤣🤣
140 Go to commentsPacific Lions, cry me a river
140 Go to commentsThis is the single worst piece of journalism I have ever seen since your last one. As a neutral, who really states that there should be an asterisk next to a win? You are an utter embarrassment to real AB fans, journalism and that joke of a house which pays you for this nonsense. Get a life, Ben.
140 Go to commentsGuys. Cancel the World Cup champions after this analysis. It changes everything. Ben knows. We’ll have to unengrave the Bokke off the trophy and hand it to the ABs, now that I’ve been enlightened about this illegitimate win. This needs to be done. Now!
140 Go to commentsBen is right here though, Springboks were woefully poor with the advantage they had throughout this game. The France match was heroic because that was an even contest this match had it taken place in Rugby Championship would have been an easy win for NZ. If anything this match should tell the Bok coaches that a lot of this team should be changed. They beat this same NZ team by record margin with the same circumstances but with a different core. They bring back the tried and tested guys and they nearly botch this game.
140 Go to commentsI knew who wrote this article from the first few words in the headline…lol. The red card actually did the ABs a favour. It galvanized them, only then did they step up a gear. Before that there was zero momentum.
140 Go to commentsFirstly the foul on Bongi was a planned move just like the NZ master plan with Bryce Lawrence you kiwis are filthy fux perhaps try to play a cleaner game next time I doubt that’s possible tho but don’t worry world rugby is on yr side they trying to take away all the BOKS strengths to help all you weakling as Jeremy Clarkson would say LA OO ZA ERR..🤣
140 Go to commentsAbsolutely spot on Ben. I certainly wouldn't gloat over a win like that. Frustrating as it is it's done and dusted and history will forever show the result.
140 Go to commentsHo hum.
140 Go to commentsNo question they were the better team. But that is the beauty of sport isn’t it!
140 Go to commentsEveryone is into Hurling in Ireland according to Porter, but only 11 of Ireland's 32 counties enter a team into the national competition. Same old blarney.
1 Go to commentsLet’s be honest. The draw and scheduling in the World Cup was a joke but South Africa found a way after having to go the hard (nearly impossible) way to the Cup Final via France and England. NZ had a hard game against France (lost) and had 5 weeks to prepare for the Quarter, 3 weeks knowing it was Ireland. NZ theerfore had to win one big game against an Irish team who played SA and then Scotland 7 days before. They won and it was de facto a semi final because they were playing a relatively weak Argentina team and it was a walk over. In the final a very rested NZ team was playing a very tired SA team and still lost. They couldn’t score more than 11 points. Put another way SA had to find a way to win while tired and they achieved that. NZ should thank their lucky stars that they fixed the scheduling in 2015 otherwise they would be dealing with a Bok treble.
140 Go to commentsPerhaps if Bongi wasn’t targeted and removed from the game in the first 3 minutes it would have been quite a different game. Maybe if NZ also faced the same competition the Boks faced to their win NZ would have looked quite different. The final score shows who outplayed who.
140 Go to commentsRubbish article! Abuladze played most of Exeters matches when fit. He got injured against Glasgow a while ago and is out for the rest of the season, thats why he hasnt played for Exeter and Georgia recently. Do some proper research next time!
1 Go to commentsGotta love it when kids throw their toys out the pram and can’t hack it with the grown ups debate. Here’s looking at you turlough! 😉🤣
148 Go to commentsThey lost the game period move on
140 Go to commentsSpringboks won! Stop winging. You can change the game however much you and your rugby colonizing IRB want to and the Springboks will win you at that too. Your mind is colonized my friend get a life
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