Bernard Laporte: "We're excited, it's a bit like the start of the World Cup!"

South Africa, New Zealand, England or Wales in the pool, what next?

The XV of France will know on Monday, at 12:30 pm, the way to go to win a first world title at home in 2023, during the draw for the Rugby World Cup in Paris.

At the Palais Brongniart, in the heart of the capital, the stake will go beyond the oval ball and the forecasts on the likely opponent in the quarterfinals, or even the final winner.

Bernard Laporte, president of the French Rugby Federation, was the guest of Europe 1.

"We have to tell ourselves that we have the team to win it"

We're excited, it's the start of the World Cup!

When you know your opponents, let's go, and regardless of the draw: if you go to the end, you will have to beat everyone.

There is no truth: big hen or small hen, that's not what will determine if you can be world champion or not ”, reacted first Bernard Laporte, before returning to the good period. of the XV of France, after several years of difficulties: "yes, things are better, congratulations to all the staff and to the players for this year 2020. It is reassuring, especially since there is youth."

As for the objective set for the French team, the president of the Fed is ambitious: “when you are the French team, when you enter a competition, you are on the starting line: so you can win it!

We have to be competitive.

We know that a final has nothing to do with it, but we have to tell ourselves that we have the team to win it ”.