Since his first steps in Pro B, in 2005 with Mulhouse, Charles-Henri Bronchard (2.00 m) was remarkably reliable: only six small games missed out of 543 possible (excluding playoffs). So when the first serious injury of his career came to mow him down at almost 39 years old, the Vichy captain logically experienced it as a tragedy. “This ordeal on my way, I saw it as a huge blow,” he recently told the official JAV website. “The first days are very heavy, I think it will remain as one of the saddest moments of my life. When you are, like me, a lover, a passionate person if you take away what makes you vibrate overnight it is destructive. Mentally it was very hard. »
Victim of a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee on September 28 in Saint-Chamond, the Mâconnais, true to his reputation, worked hard to return to participate in the end of the exciting season of his people. This is how he was able to settle for the minimum recovery time for this type of injury: six months to find the floors.
“Six months that I waited for this every day”
And Friday evening, at Pierre Coulon, it was Boulazac who suffered the frustration of “The Undertaker”, an emblematic figure of Pro B. In just 18 minutes, the Auvergne captain signed a resounding comeback: 16 points at 4/ 6, 3 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 against for 20 evaluation. “With formidable efficiency” according to his coach Guillaume Vizade, he was in line with his autumn performance in the Leaders Cup, he who had already compiled an evaluation of 21 against … BBD.
“Tonight, I attacked inside,” he told La Montagne at a press conference. “I was confident. I had too much rage to give back and I put her on the floor. I’m happy, I’ve been waiting for this every day for 6 months. As the match approached, it was not easy, there was a bit of anxiety. But once I put the shirt on, I was in the flow. I felt a connection with the guys. It was a big pleasure. And the past is past.
As an old veteran, the former interior of the Élan Béarnais now knows that the hardest part will be to chain the meetings but the important thing is to have left the infirmary. A small masterpiece at 39 after the first serious injury of his career: another new chapter in Charles-Henri Bronchard’s big book in Pro B.
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