Antoine Dupont has always wanted to do this job and from an early age.
Antoine Dupont is the star of the French rugby team, 15, but also 7 after his title of Olympic champion during the 2024 Paris Olympics and his best player in the world. A first in fact in history: never a rugby player has yet been designated best player in the world at 15 and then 7.
In the hearts of the French, the Toulouse stadium player also skyrocketed by going from 38th place to 7th place in the classification of favorite personalities of the French. A very important gain, also linked to the attitude of the champion, as discreet and humble in life as efficient on the lawn.
In a long podcast granted to Louis Vuitton, the Frenchman confided in other aspects of his life and returned to his childhood with a very simple question: what job you wanted to do when you were a young child? For Antoine Dupont, the answer was simple, because he always wanted to do this job and did not hide it.
From an early age, Antoine Dupont systematically responded “rugby player“When asked which job he wanted to exercise later. An obviousness today, but also a feat, so many children dreaming of becoming a high -level sporting day without achieving it. Proof of pugnacity and the work of French , who always wanted to make a career in the world of the oval ball.
Antoine Dupont began his professional career very early, in 2014, when he was not yet entirely aged 18. It is within the Castres Olympique team, of which he will be one of the executives for 3 years and almost 70 games, which he will be able to hatch before embarking on the big bath of the Stade Toulousain, of which he is Now the big star.
Before becoming a professional, Antoine Dupont began rugby very early, from the age of 4, within the Magnoac FC. It is around his 15th anniversary that his career will have another turn by integrating the Auch training center.
Its beginnings in the French team will also be rapid since it will integrate the hope pole of Marcoussis in 2014, before joining the French U20 team of another legend, Fabien Pelous, to compete in the 6 nations tournament from his First professional season.