Jean-Michel Puccinelli's team won La Marseillaise -

Adrien Max / 20 Minutes

  • The team led by Jean-Michel Puccinelli won 13-5 in the final of the World La Marseillaise pétanque, against Marco Foyot.

  • Marco Foyot, who was trying to match Albert Pisapia, will have to wait until next year to win his seventh title.

The dream team defeated.

The triplet led by Jean-Michel Puccinelli won in the final of the world La Marseillaise pétanque, this Wednesday evening in Marseille, against the team of Marco Foyot, with a score of 13 to 5. A disappointment for Marco Foyot and his dream team made up of Dylan Rocher and Stéphane Robineau, while trying to win a seventh title in Marseille, to equal Albert Pisapia.

Described as a “dream final” by tournament president Pierre Guille, the suspense only lasted the first part of the match.

If Puccinelli's team quickly took the lead by winning the second lead 4-0, the game then tightened thanks to nice shots from Rocher and Robineau, to finally lead 7-5.

"We played without taking the lead"

But opposite, Benji Renaud and Ludovic Montoro have shown themselves imperial.

The first missed only one shot of the whole game when the second chained the formidable scores to destabilize his opponents.

Benji Renaud was imperial on shots.

- Adrien Max / 20 Minutes

In the second part of the match, the team led by Puccinelli clearly gained the upper hand, and despite three shots of the jack by Stéphane Robineau, neither Dylan Rocher nor Marco Foyot, under a thunder of encouragement, managed to shoot the jack, which could have made them continue to hope.

As a symbol it is Benji Renaud who, by shooting the last ball of Marco Foyot, offered the title to his team.

“I'm super happy, it's not the same joy as my first victory, but I'm happy for my teammates for whom it is the first.

We played our game without taking the lead, and they lowered their feet a bit, ”said Jean-Michel Puccinelli.

"The essential is not there"

“Benji has been the best marksman in the competition for four days, he was Imperial.

It's great to win here, there's a bit of the same atmosphere as at the Vélodrome, it's really a special competition, ”said Ludovic Montoro.

Marco Foyot will have to wait to clinch his seventh title.

- Adrien Max / 20 Minutes

On the side of Marco Foyot, disappointment was in order after this defeat in the final while he awaits his seventh title since 2002. “It's a bit of a first for the three of us, we had never lost in the final.

It's a little annoying to miss the seventh but I still have six, it's already not bad.

Tomorrow, when I wake up, I'll say to myself "shit, there was still room", but we were bad at the score.

The essential is not there, I am surrounded by my friends, my family, in good health and that is the most important ”, underlined Marco Foyot at the end of the match.

And the one who will have to wait until next year to write his legend a little more to conclude: “The public is always hot here, especially since I am a parigo.

I really like Marseille and the atmosphere there.

Well done to the organizers, it's true that we take risks, I'm still a 67-year-old grandpa, so we ask ourselves questions, but it's a great sporting moment.

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