Damian Penaud is a French rugby player in XV, who plays the center or winger. It is currently evolving with the Union Bordeaux Bègles and with the French team.
Who is Damian Penaud? Damian Penaud was born on September 25, 1996 in Brive-la-Gaillarde, in the department of Corrèze. Son of Alain Penaud, a former French international, it is therefore natural that he quickly started playing rugby. Among young people, after starting at the Lou, he joined the Brive CA but it is not kept by the Brivisist club after adolescence. ASM Clermont recovers it and has it signed in its training center in 2014.
Damian Penaud made his first appearance with the first team at the end of the 2015-2016 season. Convinced of his potential, the coach of Clermont Franck Azéma gradually makes him a member of the rotation and he ended up establishing himself as a holder at the end of the 2016-2017 season, when Clermont is crowned French champion. It was during this period that he was integrated into the elite list of players protected by the supervision of the XV of France and that he celebrates his first selection under the orders of Guy Novès during a tour in South Africa, In June 2017, marking a test for its beginnings.
Damian Penaud confirms during the following season in Clermont but will take a little more time to make his hole in the staff of the XV of France. He did not play his first VI Nations tournament until 2019, but he has since become, at 25, one of Clermont and the Blues, with whom he has just won the VI Nations tournament in 2022.
Damian Penaud was able to listen to the advice of his father Alain during his youth and the start of his rugby player career. Alain Penaud is a former rugby player, who played in particular at CA Brive for 11 years (between 1987 and 1998 and then between 2001 and 2005), but also at the Toulouse stadium, at Saracens, Lou and Stade Français. A half opening, he was 32 times a French international between 1992 and 2000, without however competing in a World Cup with the Blues.
Damian Penaud has the ideal template for playing in the center or at the wing. It measures 1.92 m for 94 kg.
Damian Penaud has played, for the moment, since his professional debut with Clermont, with whom he won the Top 14 in 2017 and the European challenge in 2019. He was also a finalist in the French championship in 2019 and the D -Cup ‘Europe in 2017. With the French team, he won the VI Nations 2022 tournament and was a quarter finalist at the 2019 World Cup in Japan.
Damian Penaud had left Japan after the 2019 World Cup with two less teeth. The Clermont player was the victim of an impressive shock with his teammate Rémy Grosso. The balance sheet? Nearly twenty stitches and two broken teeth, those in front.
On the occasion of Rugby World CupDamian Penaud recorded a celebration that made the buzz by his self -mockery.
Damian Penaud is currently under contract with ASM Clermont until June 2023, making him a player coveted by several other French clubs. The French player could use it to renegotiate his salary, estimated at several tens of thousands of euros per month, upwards with Clermont.