And the central door of the Sainte-Cécile church in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) closed. With all its contained penalties. With all its misunderstandings. Christophe Dominici is no more. His tragic disappearance on November 24 at the age of 48, plunged his two young daughters Chiara and Mia, and his wife Loretta in an abysmal, unfathomable grief and the rugby family in sadness and introspection.
As usual, the latter has formed a body as she knows so well on the field. For the occasion, Max Guazzini, the emblematic president of the Stade Français, tied the pink and blue tie, that of the years of glory. Around noon, while the approximately 200 people who attended the ceremony with the distances, the barrier gestures and the masks gathered at the foot of the building, Domi’s friends, his inner circle, descend the steps of a side staircase and carry the coffin of an immaculate white before placing a pink jersey, that of Stade de Français, that of his farewell to the competition. Among the carriers, we find Pierre Rabadan, Sylvain Marconnet and Christophe Moni or Mathieu Blin. Only forwards, “the big ones” as the deceased affectionately nicknamed them.
“Often you exasperated us fat people,” said Marconnet, mounted near the altar to pay homage to his friend. Before seeing bitter: “You made us leave the world of adolescence for that of adults.” The carelessness of the rugby years, the conquest of titles and the heat of the action do not always manage to forget that these colossi often have imperfect armor and deep cracks. “Your hook knocked us out,” says Vincent Moscato with a quavering voice.
At the foot of the coffin photos with the jersey of the France team evoke the greatness of a player who had known how to enter the life and the heart of the French. Weaknesses, Domi had not been afraid to reveal them in broad daylight, as Father Barthélémy rightly pointed out, citing extracts from his autobiographical book: “I am not a happy man but I am not unhappy either. “.
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A little earlier the president of the French Rugby Federation, Bernard Laporte, his voice tied with emotion had mentioned “a tireless and inexhaustible fighter” and “an end that cannot be accepted”. “The questions obsess us and we must accept not to have an answer”, answers the assistance and the children of the late father Barthélémy recalling that before becoming a huge player recognized from Paris to Auckland, he had him also encountered absolute grief with the passing of her older sister. “Would he have become Domi without this loss?” “
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So that the spirit and the heritage remain, the general manager of the Stade Français Thomas Lombard indicates that “in rugby, the words precede the actions” and promises that the Pink Soldiers will be “worthy of what you left. “” The club is now protected by your star. “
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