Recalled to the France team on Friday, the La Rochelle center is in the “re-athletics phase” explained the French staff on Wednesday, before facing Scotland on Sunday.
The return of the center of La Rochelle Jonathan Danty, is not yet on the agenda in the France team. Recalled to prepare for the match against Scotland on Sunday February 26 (to be continued on France 2 and france.tv), he is “not 100%” and is “hoped“before the end of the Six Nations Tournament, explained, Wednesday, February 22, Thibaud Giroud, the performance director of the XV of France.
“For us, he is still in the rehabilitation phase. He’s not 100%, so for the international level, it’s complicated. We are all aware of that. The player too. We wanted to bring him in to see where he was. It had been a while since we had seen him. We know where Jo is, Jo knows where he is”, explained Giroud from Marcoussis. The powerful three-quarter center, injured in the knee, should therefore not claim a place at the Stade de France on Sunday.
A return by the end of the Tournament?
“We hope to have it by the end of the Tournament. That’s also why we brought him here, to know what was going to happen in the next few weeks.“, he added then. The absence of Danty (30 years old, 18 selections), victim of a rupture of the posterior cruciate ligament at the end of December, was initially estimated at two months. But the former player of the French Stadium came back faster than expected and even participated in his club’s victory against Castres (32-17) on Saturday in the Top 14.
During the Tuesday and Wednesday sessions, the La Rochelle center wore a large knee pad on the right leg. He is therefore logically one of the players made available to their club on Wednesday. He is accompanied by Clément Castets, Bastien Chalureau, Dylan Cretin, Ibrahim Diallo, Thomas Lavault, Alexandre Roumat, Yoan Tanga, Pierre-Louis Barassi, Louis Bielle-Biarrey, Romain Buros, Emilien Gailleton, Antoine Hastoy and Mathis Lebel.
The composition of the team that will face the XV du Thistle, Sunday, February 26, will be announced Friday by Fabien Galthié and Raphaël Ibanez.