There will be no extension as a joker of the trocar: the bearded extreme protagonist in Pro 14, Cups, Six Nations and World Cup ’19 will return to Australia
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Jayden Hayward will leave Benetton at the end of the season. The green-and-white extreme has definitively announced it to Benetton executives in recent days. Faced with the player’s already known intention to return to the antipodes, the club had evaluated the possibility of reconfirming him for another season as a joker of the backs. And this also given the imminent arrival in green-and-white, in a few months, of the South African extreme Andries Coetzee, the South African national.
He will return to Australia with his family at the age of 34, after seven seasons in Treviso (he arrived in Ghirada in the summer of 2014, and so far boasts 121 caps) and the conquest of the blue jersey in 2017 by virtue of the equalization rules. His debut with Fiji and then his debut in the Six Nations of 2018, with England, always under the management of the Irish coach Conor O ‘Shea, who would then have fielded him three times in the 2019 Japanese World Cup. ‘unmistakable beard, a trademark, and an enviable physique, Hayward was also voted sexiest player of the tournament.
He has undoubtedly given Benetton a great contribution in closing the field and in counterattack, thanks to his vision of the game (even if in recent seasons this fundamental has not been so explored by the team), not to mention his ballistic skills. , in truth never exploited are at the bottom of the shooting range, and this even when the Lions had sniper problems.
And certainly Jadyen, with his personality on the pitch, was one of the protagonists both in Pro 14 and in the European Cups, hitting the two historic quarter-finals that have so far “embellished” the board of the green-and-white club since the adventure began. Celtic, in 2010.
First the prank of Limerick in the quarterfinals of Pro 14 (apart from his 40-meter drop that could have given the success to the Lions in the 83rd minute) and the narrow defeat, also steeped in regret for all the players, last Saturday at Montpellier in the Challenge Cup.
It will not be the only illustrious leave at the end of this troubled season: The president Amerino Zatta and the sporting director Antonio Pavanello are considering the permanence of many players who are expiring their contracts, especially among the veterans (Sgarbi, Barbini, Esposito, Leo Sarto, only to name a few), while Nicola Quaglio has already announced his farewell to the green-and-white jersey.
Meanwhile, at the staff level, there are rumors of offers from France for Ezio Galon, technician and son of art, former center and blue, who until now had worked on the back line and on the Benetton attack. –
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