{"id":46355,"date":"2026-10-16T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/?p=46355"},"modified":"2026-10-16T10:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:07:54","slug":"rct-titulaire-a-edimbourg-lheure-de-patrick-tuifua-a-enfin-sonne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/2026\/10\/16\/rct-titulaire-a-edimbourg-lheure-de-patrick-tuifua-a-enfin-sonne\/","title":{"rendered":"[RCT] Titulaire \u00e0 \u00c9dimbourg, l\u2019heure de Patrick Tuifua a enfin sonn\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Il aura fallu attendre plus d\u2019un an pour voir Patrick Tuifua d\u00e9buter un match avec le RCT. Annonc\u00e9 comme un grand espoir du rugby mondial \u00e0 son arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 Toulon en\u00a02025, le natif de Noum\u00e9a (Nouvelle-Cal\u00e9donie), chip\u00e9 au nez et \u00e0 la barbe de la franchise n\u00e9o-z\u00e9landaise des Hurricanes et du Super Rugby alors qu\u2019il \u00e9voluait en terre maorie depuis cinq ans (et que les All Blacks lui faisaient les yeux doux en d\u00e9pit de ses s\u00e9lections avec les U20 fran\u00e7ais) n\u2019a, jusqu\u2019ici, port\u00e9 le maillot rouge et noir qu\u2019\u00e0 quatre reprises.<\/p>\n<p>La faute \u00e0 une blessure au genou qui l\u2019a \u00e9loign\u00e9 des terrains une grande partie de la saison derni\u00e8re, au cours de laquelle il n\u2019a disput\u00e9 que deux matches. \u00ab\u00a0<i>\u00c7a a \u00e9t\u00e9 une p\u00e9riode difficile, avec les gens qui parlaient sur les r\u00e9seaux aussi<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb, avoue le troisi\u00e8me ligne de 22\u00a0ans. \u00ab\u00a0<i>Heureusement, mes proches m\u2019ont soutenu<\/i>.\u00a0\u00bb Entr\u00e9 en jeu face \u00e0 La\u00a0Rochelle et Castres, il sera titulaire ce vendredi, apr\u00e8s avoir repris le rythme avec les espoirs la semaine derni\u00e8re.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0<i>Un grand jour<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb pour lui, malgr\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0<i>une petite appr\u00e9hension<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb li\u00e9e \u00e0 son genou, apr\u00e8s avoir re\u00e7u \u00ab\u00a0<i>un coup qui l\u2019a fait gonfler il y a deux semaines<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb. \u00ab\u00a0<i>Mais je pense \u00e0 ce que j\u2019ai v\u00e9cu pendant ma convalescence. \u00c7a a \u00e9t\u00e9 dur, alors maintenant je veux tout donner<\/i>\u00a0\u00bb, explique-t-il. Dans une comp\u00e9tition que celui qui sera une des curiosit\u00e9s du jour pour les supporters a h\u00e2te de d\u00e9couvrir\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0<i>Mon p\u00e8re me parlait tout le temps de la coupe d\u2019Europe. \u00c7a va \u00eatre sp\u00e9cial, surtout si on va au bout<\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i>\u00bb.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Il aura fallu attendre plus d&rsquo;un an pour voir Patrick Tuifua d&eacute;buter un match avec le RCT. Annonc&eacute; comme un grand espoir du rugby mondial &agrave; son arriv&eacute;e &agrave; Toulon en&nbsp;2025, le natif de Noum&eacute;a &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[900,907,906,904,1211,5476,597,31],"news-destination":[],"news-source":[475],"is_homepage":[],"ta_other":[],"class_list":["post-46355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-match","tag-rc-toulon","tag-rct","tag-rugby","tag-saison","tag-terrains","tag-toulon","tag-var","news-source-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46357,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46355\/revisions\/46357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46355"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=46355"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=46355"},{"taxonomy":"is_homepage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_homepage?post=46355"},{"taxonomy":"ta_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ta_other?post=46355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}