He wasn’t even sure he could greet Aguilera again. This Saturday against Clermont, Ximun Lucu is going to tread the lawn of the garden of the Biarritz Olympic Basque Country. After twelve years at the club, the Senpertar will end his career at the end of the season. “I didn’t think too much about that last home game, confides the rear in a press conference. I’ll have a few thoughts in the afternoon before the game, but I think I’ll mostly try to enjoy tomorrow, it’s a special moment, a bit unique. I just want to savor it, and think a little about myself.”
“Want to cut with that”
At 32, Ximun Lucu will have been the man of two clubs, Mont-de-Marsan and Biarritz. “I’m thinking above all of all the people I’ve met, all the friendships I’ve made, that’s what will stay” advances the big brother of the scrum-half of the XV of France Maxime Lucu. But after a complicated last season trying to stay in the Top 14 in a context far from obvious, where the presidency of the club, the town hall and the amateur soundtrack fought a real pitched battle, in addition to the requirement of the Top 14, it’s time to take a step back. “I want to cut with that a bit. I think it’s the body that reacts like that, when you take hits, you’re tired, small injuries everywhere, it became complicated to exist at this level, where you already have to be at 200%.“
“Enjoy the perks”
It remains three weeks in Biarrots before coming full circle, and that the group does not separate towards other adventures. “What we experienced together this season, it will remain, but it’s been two, three months that I tell myself that the sequel will also be cool Ximun smiled. I also want to take advantage of the extras. In the end, it’s been thirteen years since I spent a full summer, I made sacrifices…“For now, Ximun Lucu intends to stay”another two or three years“on the side of Biarritz, the time to stabilize. And only then, we can possibly consider a return to the fold, on the side of Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle.
For this last home game, Ximun Lucu will start at the back.