"It's hard not to be on the field"

Long injured, Hendrik Roodt made his return to competition a few weeks ago. He told the Dauphine Libere his slow recovery: "It was hard. It was long. Almost six months, in this case, for me. It's hard not to be on the field. I'm not the type to talk when I'm not playing. I just tried to help the kids from time to time. "

Not used to sparing his efforts, Hendrik Roodt, for his first game of the season in Toulon, said "I was going to be careful. But after the first contact, it was over. And I felt better and better over the minutes, and then, over the course of the games. "

"I'm not 100% at the level of the ankle, I still have a small problem at the level of the nerve," he reveals. I do not have time to recover, I have to be on the ground. I took my own responsibilities to play. And it works. I did not hurt. "

His contribution in the pack of Grenoble is valuable, especially in terms of state of mind. Hendrik Roodt, wants to pull his teammates with him towards the maintenance: "We work hard, we must not give up. "

Full interview to be found in the December 20 edition of the Dauphiné Libéré