Rugby posts (illustration). - BORIS HORVAT

There is great concern at the Rugby Club of the Pays de Roquefort in the Landes. This Sunday afternoon, a club player was very seriously injured during the match against Sainte-Livrade. He was helicoptered to the Bordeaux University Hospital in serious condition.

“It was on a dismissal. Our player wanted to tackle the receiver, but he got in profile at the time of the tackle and our player's head ended up in his opponent's hip, ”explained a spectator to 20 Minutes . Aware, the third line of Tahitian origin could not move: "He no longer felt one of his arms and two legs," said Xavier Martin, the club secretary.

Two cervical surgeries in a few hours

He was severely affected in the spine. Supported by the rescue, he has been "operated twice on the cervical since yesterday and it is still unclear whether the spinal cord is affected," said the club on Monday morning.

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