Former Secretary of State for Sports, Bernard Laporte could rejoin for a second term at the head of the French Rugby Federation. After an end of the campaign which largely hit the headlines ...

Rugby / Election to the FFR: Bernard Laporte will he transform his new test?

The boss of French rugby, Bernard Laporte.

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Former Secretary of State for Sports, Bernard Laporte could rejoin for a second term at the head of the French Rugby Federation.

After an end to the campaign which has largely hit the headlines, electronic voting started this Friday, October 2.

The ballot is held until tomorrow noon and the clubs are called to express themselves.

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Florian Grill, at the head of the Ile-de-France rugby league, will he overthrow Bernard Laporte?

The challenger will he stop the former coach of Blues, who seduces the powerful, and who even had the right to his puppet at the Guignols?

Whole night in police custody

Because the most striking fact of this end of the presidential race remains the custody of Bernard Laporte on September 22.

The native of Rodez, the legendary banter, suspected of having used his influence in favor of Montpellier, the club of Mohed Altrad, also sponsor of the Blues, was heard for two days by the Brigade for the repression of economic delinquency .

Did he promote Montpellier (Top 14) by intervening with the FFR appeal commission to reduce sanctions against the club at the end of June 2017?

“

We have never gone so far to try to discourage me

,” said Laporte, 56, in a message posted on his Facebook and Twitter accounts on September 28.

The Aveyronnais has always defended himself, even if he admitted to having telephoned on June 30, 2017 to the president of the commission, Jean-Daniel Simonet.

“

This surge will only have been in the media.
With less than ten days of our deadline, I am entitled to ask myself the question of the advisability.
Who could benefit from the storm?
Now having knowledge of the axes of the investigation, I am more serene than ever

, ”commented the former scrum half who wishes to feminize the practice and the instances.

The current president of the FFR aims to organize the 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup.

Because the former coach of the French Stadium is a seducer.

The boss of the French Stadium, Max Guazzini, succumbed at the time to the charm of this Rastignac who brought him the title of champion of France in 1998.

A seducer nicknamed "

Crazy Bernie"

Since his time in government under Nicolas Sakozy, the former France Telecom agent, nicknamed "Bernie le dingue", skilfully navigates between the lines.

Nothing stops him.

Like the day when, at the end of an official speech as Secretary of State for Sports, he launched: "

I wanted to tell you that I am not the father of Rachida Dati's child

During his first mandate, Bernard Laporte won the organization of the 2023 World Cup in France while World Rugby was in favor of South Africa.

Christophe Dominici, a former French international player, praised "

a man capable of moving mountains

In adversity as in a melee, Laporte pushes very hard.

Now, Bernard Laporte promises amateur clubs that the FFR will "

always be there

" for them, facing "

two to three very, very difficult years

" to come because of the Covid-19.

The former coach, who has never been international, but who has won four Six Nations tournaments with the XV of France as coach, has the oval ball in his skin.

And so far, Laporte, with a singing accent, has always tackled his various opponents.

Businessman, network man, Bernard Laporte had announced that he was running for a second term as President of the Federation in 2020 when he had not even completed his first year?

Rugby / Election to the FFR: Bernard Laporte will he transform his new test?

Rugby / Election to the FFR: Bernard Laporte will he transform his new test?

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