The holidays are over for the Bordeaux-Bègles Union. The semi-finalist club Top 14 for the second year in a row resumed training this Monday, July 25. He also formalized the arrival of eight new players.
Manager Christophe Urios has set his sights on the Australian international Caleb Timu (28 years old), former Queensland Reds player and passed by Montpellier from 2019 to 2021 (34 matches played, 4 tries scored). The Congolese-born winger Madosh Tambwe, who played for the Pretoria Bulls this season, also signed up with the Girondin club. Best jumper and second player having traveled the most ball distance in hand (1055 meters) in the United Rugby Championship, his mission will be to make people forget Ben Lam, who left for Montpellier.
Falatea lined up alongside Moefana
Among the recruits are also two players from ASM Clermont-Auvergne: the center Tani Vili, only 21 years old, present with the group France during the summer tour in Japan. He signed up for three seasons with UBB. Silipi Falatea will play alongside his nephew and Gironde center Yoram Moefana for the next two seasons. The 25-year-old pillar already has four selections for the France team.
Two players from Toulouse have decided to go down the Garonne to join the ranks of the UBB: This is the third center line Antoine Miquel (28 years old) as well as the Australian fly-half/center Zack Holmes (32 years old) who will act as a stand-in for Matthieu Jalibert. Finally, two pillars, from Pro D2, have signed for two seasons: the right-hander Christopher Vaotao (25), recruited last season by Laurent Marti’s club but left on loan at Montauban, and the left-hander Ugo Boniface (23 years old) and U20 world champion in 2018.
Before the launch of the 2022-2023 season, on September 3, against Stade Toulousain, the Girondin club still has five weeks of preparation and two friendly matches on the program. After an internship at Saint-Lary, he will face Bayonne, promoted to the Top 14, on August 20 at Jean-Dauger and Clermont on August 26 at Issoire (Puy de Dôme).