Interviewed this Friday by the Figaro, Abdelatif Benazzi, former eminent third-line of Agen and the Blues, was not kind to Bernard Laporte and the FFR.
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“(Bernard Laporte) attacks professional clubs, disrespect for the President of the League”
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After some reproaches about the operating profit in deficit of the authority or the weariness experienced by the volunteers in the amateur clubs, that which appears in the list of Florian Grill in the campaign for the presidency of the Fed (the elections should take place on October 3) reported some disgust: “I feel uneasy. Values, state of mind are overused. Is it the role of the president of the FFR to announce the creation of a Club World Cup? He attacks professional clubs, disrespect for the president of the League (Paul Goze). He must take care of amateur rugby and the French team, not interfere in the work of others. What is it to have the League constantly in the crosshairs, to want to dissolve to manage rugby alone without the slightest respect for the institutions, the club presidents? It is a band of raptors who want to rule over everything and please friends. The Federation’s payroll increased by € 12 million. But where are we going? We must stop all this. When you see the waste … “
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Bernard Laporte, president since 2016, has not officially presented his candidacy for his re-election. In recent weeks, the opposition campaign has intensified, with increasingly dry and direct criticism of the results of current governance. In early May, a first salvo of attacks, notably signed by Jean-Marc Lhermet, had caused the reaction of several president of Ligues and those close to Laporte.
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