"The style of play in Grenoble is the best thing"

Gio Aplon, the best scorer of the FCG, has extended his contract for three more seasons this winter. The South African will remain one of the leaders of the "Rouge & Bleu"

His shape

"I hope [i am always the fastest]. What has changed is that this season I was twice wounded at the ischios whereas it had never happened to me in eleven years before. It was frustrating, it made me even more vigilant. My chance is that I have never experienced any serious injuries. I'm thirty-four, but I feel like I'm seventeen. Let's say on Tuesday and Wednesday, I feel I could play four more years. But on Sunday after the matches, I changed my mind and said, "But how are you going to finish this season?"

His new contract with the FCG

" I thought a lot. I do not want the end of my career to be a matter of money or contract. I do not want to stop at thirty-five and tell myself six months after it was too early, that I still had things to give. But I especially want to be remembered that my last game was still a good game. I do not wish that on that day we would say that I was finished two seasons ago. "

His style of play

"In South Africa, especially in Super Rugby, I had coaches who gave me a lot of freedom. But the system around it was more structured. Today, at this stage of my career, at my age, the style of play in Grenoble is the best thing that could happen to me. I burst out like never before. (...) Our feeling is that our ranking is not due to our style of play. "