This Thursday, four days before the start of the 6 Nations Tournament for the XV of France, Sunday in Rome against Italy, Bernard Laporte was alongside Fabien Galthié and his men in Capbreton, according to L ‘Team. The former coach of the Blues has however freshly resigned from his functions as president of the FFR.
Resigned but present alongside his troops. According to our colleagues from The team, Bernard Laporte, officially no longer president of the French Rugby Federation since he resigned last Friday, was nevertheless in Capbreton, on the site of the preparation of the Blues for the 6 Nations Tournament, this Thursday at four days of the first meeting of Fabien Galthié and his men in this 2023 6 Nations Tournament, Sunday afternoon (4:00 p.m.) against Italy at the Olympic stadium in Rome. According to the daily, the freshly ex-boss of French rugby joined the French coach and the defending champions (the Blues had returned to victory in the Tournament last February after twelve years of scarcity, Grand Slam at the key) to their hotel in the Landes where Antoine Dupont and his family have taken up residence since January 22 and where they will stay again next August, this time to prepare for the World Cup. An unexpected presence knowing that the Gersois, precisely former coach of the XV of France, had resigned six days earlier the day after the no by referendum of the 1,500 amateur clubs to Patrick Buisson, the delegate president chosen by Laporte to replace him during his implementation. withdrawal and until his appeal trial when it was still a question of replacing the one who was then still at the head of the FFR.
While waiting for the official appointment of Martinez?
Since then, a lot of water has flowed under the points, resignations have cascaded (the nine members of the Oval Ensemble opposition list as well as the two representatives of the LNR on the FFR steering committee have also given up their aprons) and contrary to what the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra advocated, who had again called earlier this week for the resignation of the body’s steering committee and the organization of new general elections, an interim president – namely the treasurer Alexandre Martinez, believe our colleagues from the Figaro, who nevertheless specify that the appointment of Martinez must be ratified by a vote on Friday – has been designated to take the place still occupied last Thursday by Laporte. That the observers were far from imagining disembarking at Capbreton on Thursday, as if nothing had happened… Yet that is exactly what happened.
