Paris (AFP)
A president of the French Rugby Federation (FFR) "above ground" and "on another planet": the opponent to Bernard Laporte, Florian Grill, has relaunched his campaign, suspended since mid-March because of the coronavirus, with a brief interview at RMC Sport on Friday.
"They are completely above ground and disconnected. But also, in my opinion, dehumanized because everything revolves around money. Bernard Laporte is on another planet", asserts Florian Grill who leads the opposition list to the president of the FFR , candidate for a second term in the federal election set for October 3.
"His planet today is World Rugby, it is no longer the FFR", adds Grill a few days after the announcement of the election of Bernard Laporte to the vice-presidency of the governing body of world rugby .
"Two societal projects are in opposition," says Grill, supported in particular by former internationals Serge Blanco, Fabien Pelous, Jean-Marc Lhermet, Eric Champ and Jean-Claude Skrela.
"I consider that of Bernard Laporte as above ground," he says, seeing rugby through the prism of the spectacle, of its globalization, of an annual Club World Cup. "
A proposal launched a month ago by the former coach of the XV of France to replace the European Cups, which are struggling to find their audience.
"Everything revolves around the money that is supposed to trickle down on the clubs, to use his expression, insists his opponent N.1. In our project, we want to make sense. We start from the bottom."
Grill also decries the "total tension" of the Federation with the National Rugby League (LNR), in opposition on the issue of climbs or not in Federal 1 in Pro D2, and tances the management of the duo Bernard Laporte-Serge Simon who he said, "dried up the accounts".
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