“I thought the kid was dead”: rugby in shock after the violent attack on a young player plunged into a coma

“The news from the hospital this Tuesday morning is slightly good. » Jean-Pierre Herail, the president of the Séverac-le Château rugby club (Aveyron) does not want to speak any further. Because a 23-year-old young man, a player in his club’s reserve team, is still in a coma since a violent attack on Sunday afternoon by a pillar of the Entente Maureilhan team.

After a tackle, the man threw himself on young Noah Loubety, a much frailer winger than him. “It was a punch in the temple like you wouldn’t imagine seeing on a field,” says Jean-Pierre Herail. It was a stroke of pure violence. To hurt. The referee gave him a red card immediately and he was very shocked by what he saw. »

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