{"id":487144,"date":"2025-10-10T01:50:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/487144\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:50:24","slug":"fabien-galthies-shock-antoine-dupont-training-camp-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/487144\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabien Galthie’s shock Antoine Dupont training camp update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Antoine Dupont will link up with France\u2019s training squad next month despite still recovering from the knee injury that ended his Six Nations<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n

Fabien Galthi\u00e9 confirmed to Sud Ouest that the Toulouse<\/a> scrum-half and France<\/a> captain will be part of the November camp at Marcoussis even though he won\u2019t play in any of the autumn Tests.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will train with us in the 42 + one,\u201d Galthi\u00e9 said. \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t ask him for the impossible. Antoine is finishing his rehabilitation and preparing for his return to play. He will participate in training with restraint.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament against Ireland<\/a> in Dublin on March 8 and has spent the past months recovering, including a spell at the Aspetar clinic in Doha. He returned to light rugby work with Toulouse this week, taking part in a foot-tennis warm-up before continuing training alone.<\/p>\n

His presence at Marcoussis is as much about leadership as fitness. France face South Africa, Fiji<\/a> and Australia<\/a> across November, and while Dupont won\u2019t be involved on the pitch, his influence off it remains significant two years out from the 2027 World Cup.<\/p>\n

With the Top 14<\/a> paused for the Test window, Toulouse have no objections to their captain joining the national squad environment. Ugo Mola<\/a> said this week that Dupont is \u201ca little less far\u201d from playing again and could return for Toulouse by late November \u2014 possibly against Montauban on the 22nd or Racing 92<\/a> a week later.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach day, we\u2019re a little less far from his return. Hopefully, we\u2019ll see him back on the pitch in a little under two months,\u201d said Mola.<\/p>\n

That would set him up for a symbolic milestone in February, as Dupont\u2019s 60th cap could come against Ireland at the Stade de France, the very fixture in which he was injured twelve months previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antoine Dupont will link up with France\u2019s training squad next month despite still recovering from the knee injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-487144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115347365858970093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}