Monaco (AFP)

"I'm determined because I know it's my last World Cup," said France coach Jacques Brunel, 65, on Friday in Monaco, where the Blues are continuing their preparation for Japan. September - 2 November).

A week earlier, the Gersois, struggling in the spring after a disappointing Six Nations Tournament (4th), had set an example to his troops by bungee jumping during a "cohesion day" with the Group of intervention of the National Gendarmerie (GIGN).

Q: Why did you choose to come to Monaco?

A: "The setting is different, we can not say that it is austere, but it is especially practical: we do not need to move, we are at 50 m (the hotel is in front of the stadium Louis- II, Ed), we have all the facilities on site, the players can work and see each other all day long.We came here firstly for the temperature: we tried to work in hyperthermia in the heat, because that it seems important to us to get used to these conditions, maybe it will not make extreme heat in Japan but it may be hot, and above all there is moisture. to cut the routine, even if the players were in Marcoussis because the days were very busy, we have no time to think about anything else.We were completely in rugby, we will be also here in a different context . "

Q: Currently in hard physical preparation, you impose 4 sessions per day to your players. When will the pace become a little less tiring?

A: "The heart of the preparation, if we want to make a diagram, is to make a lot of volume and intensity now.When the matches are going to arrive (three matches of preparation from mid- to end of August, Ed), we will in a fairly high work, with volume and intensity, we will reduce the volume when we arrive in Japan. "

Q: You feel determined, much more than in Rome in March when the XV of France had laboriously won against Italy ...

A: "I'm determined because I know it's my last, so I do not want to miss it, of course I've made it, I've done four (2003 and 2007 as Bernard Laporte's assistant) and then 2015 as Italy coach), I'm privileged, it's good, and in Rome you rightly pointed out to me that it was a Pyrrhic victory. explain that we had won, in spite of everything, other times it had turned the other way but indeed, we could not be satisfied with that moment. "

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