Le Pasteur won the Paulist championship in 2023. JOAO NETO FOTO
NARRATIVE – The Pasteur Athletic Club, based in São Paulo, is a figure in Brazilian rugby. Dive into a club with a strong French accent.
French rugby settled in Brazil in the 1960s, a land where football is king and will remain so. At that time, the oval ball bounced within the Lycée français Pasteur de São Paulo. The opportunity to simply find a name for the club: the Pasteur Athletic Club. “The French high school was created by multinationals in the 1960s. And students, French at the time and sons of expatriates who had played rugby in France, wanted to continue here, in Brazil. That’s when they created the club.”says Lucien Belmont, the president of the club reached by telephone.
At first, the school was content to compete with those in the surrounding area. “We were playing in the state championship and the national championship. We are still in both competitions currently, in fact. And little by little, we created a rugby school.”, continues the latter. During this period, the club became more and more attractive. And goes from a Franco-French team to a more cosmopolitan team.
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