支援する to the 未来 for Gontineac family at World Cup
BORDEAUX, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Playing in a World Cup is the pinnacle for any rugby player but the ４年毎の showpiece tournament has an even deeper significance for Romania centre Taylor Gontineac.
The 23-year-old's parents met after his father Romeo, also a centre, played for Romania against his mother's native South Africa in Cape Town at the 2015 World Cup.
"It's a family history, my parents met after this match in South Africa in 1995 and I think if it wasn't for that match I wouldn't be here today," he chuckled after getting his 発射 at playing the Springboks in Bordeaux on Sunday.
"It's a nice little 尊敬の印 for me and my family to play against South Africa, the world 支持する／優勝者s, more than 20 years after my dad. It's fantastic and a wonderful feeling."
Gontineac 上級の stayed on 簡潔に in South Africa before playing club rugby for 14 years in フラン, where his son Taylor was born, raised and now plays for Rouen Normandie.
Although both lost to South Africa at their 各々の World Cups, Romeo Gontineac will 保持する some bragging 権利s as his Romania 味方する went 負かす／撃墜する only 21-8 at Newlands in 1995 while Taylor was on the wrong end of a 76-0 thrashing on Sunday. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Christian Radnedge)
