• Nantes captain Rock Feliho announced this Monday morning that he will end his career after the Final Four in Cologne next weekend.

  • He would have liked to continue for another year, but the club's sports staff decided otherwise.

  • Rock Feliho has been one of the great architects of the rise of the Nantes club for more than a decade.

“I preferred to write a speech, to allow myself, at least to try not to be too taken by the emotion. Behind, the meter 92 of muscles and the swagger, a small heart of artichoke. Nantes handball player Rock Feliho, who will be 39 years old in August, announced this Monday morning at the H Arena, in the presence of all his partners, that he was ending his career "at the end of the Final Four of the Champions League ”next weekend in Cologne. Nantes are playing their semi-final on Saturday against Barcelona, ​​and perhaps their final on Sunday (either against PSG or against Aalborg).

The one who will have spent "eleven magnificent years under the purple jersey of the" H "[with an interlude of only two months in Toulouse] admitted that he would have liked to do another year. "But the will of the sports staff [coach Alberto Entrerrios and his assistant Gregory Cojean were not present at the H Arena on Monday] not being the same as mine, why insist and risk not ending up like I would have deserved and wanted it ”, explained Feliho“ without resentment ”.

After 20 years of career, Rock Feliho, who is a native of Benin, will stay in Nantes.

He has been following a management training course at EM Lyon for several months and should play an “ambassador” and “marketing” role.

"All this remains to be refined," said President Gaël Pelletier, also very moved, by the end of the career of "the perfect captain".

The one who was elected four times best defender of D1 will have been one of the great architects of the constant progress of the HBCN for more than a decade.

“Nantes is a great project!

I want to go as high as possible with this club… ”, he declared during his presentation conference in 2010, alongside his ex-trainer Thierry Anti.

Eleven years later, the "H" won a Coupe de la Ligue in 2015, a Coupe de France in 2017, and was a finalist in the EHF European Cup in 2013 and 2016, and especially the Champions League in 2018. The "H" is "one of the best current clubs in the world", even launched Rock Feliho.

Evidenced by his place in the last four of the most prestigious European Cup next weekend in Germany.

“I still have a challenge that we will take up.

I have two games left, the best two possible.

It's not presumptuous to say that, but we're going to Cologne to win, to lift the Cup and bring it back to Nantes!

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