While there was a question for a time that the young UBB nugget was loaned in Pro D2 to acquire playing time and experience, Jon Echegaray (19) will finally spend an increasingly in Top 14 season with the Girondins. The player announced him himself on here Gironde on Monday.
May UBB supporters be reassured: the new darling of the Chaban-Delmas stadium will always vibrate its fans next season. Contrary to what seemed to be looming at a time, Jon Echegaray (19) will always evolve at the start of the school year and in Top 14 and under the colors of this Bordeaux-Bègles team who saw him hatch. After having thought for a time to send their nugget in Pro D2 to store experience and obtain the playing time it deserves but from which it does not necessarily benefit to date in the elite, the leaders of the UBB have clearly revised their position.
The rear formed in Bidart before going through Biarritz himself announced on Monday on the waves ofHere Gironde As part of the “100% UBB” issue that he was not going to leave. “Do I stay at UBB next season?” Yes, ”replied the International U20, who will not join another team from the championship, still hearing it.
Echegaray: “Glad to have this record”
“There have been certain discussions, but normally, there will be no loan that it is in Top 14 or in Pro D2 in fact for next year,” said the old Biarrot, who has notably made a name since its beginnings of February 15 with the Girondins on the lawn of Bayonne (“we will say that there was no right to make mistakes”, smiles Echegaray) by registering the most rapid test of the Top 14.
It must be said that that day (March 1), in Perpignan, the kick-off had been given for only eight seconds when the one who dreams of borrowing “his speed” from Louis Bielle-Biarrey and “his high balls” from Romain Buros, one of his other teammates at the UBB, had found the flaw. A test that the native of the Basque Country is not about to forget. Even if he only discovered it afterwards. “I learned that after the match, I didn’t expect it at all. I am happy to have this record and I hope to keep it for a while. »»
