The good news came in the week : Mauléon, Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Anglet will play in the same pool of Federal 1 the next season. A hen confined to the departments of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, the Landes, the Gers, the Hautes-Pyrénées and Tarn-et-Garonne.
“Fill the stadiums and the club finances”
Something to satisfy the 3 clubs basques. In particular Mauléonais and Luziens who have refused a few days earlier to join the all-new Pro D3 to do not including having to move to the 4 corners of France. Anglet was not sufficiently well placed in terms of the past season to make that claim, but its leaders do not hide that they would have declined them as well.
In this pool 4, the brothers basques will also Oloron and Tyrosse. What is household some nice derbys in the course of the season, and to revive the best of the clubs after the health crisis, and economic related Covid-19. “We will be able to attract the world to the stage” welcomes Arnaud Héguy. Especially as the government has just sent some encouraging signs in authorizing the reopening of stadia to the public, from the 11th of July, in the limit of 5.000 spectators.
The co-coach of Mauléon, alongside Sébastien Jaca, knows the players, supporters but also leaders are in great need : “all the clubs, all the world will want to complete the stages and also to complete necessarily indirectly the finances of the clubs impacted by the whole thing. I hope the derbys will generate excitement”
“Clubs who breathe our rugby in the South West”
This hen very “local”, with the displacement of 3h maximum between the two cities to the most remote of the hen, Saint-Jean-de-Lus and Castelsarrasin, will also allow the teams de make trips shorter, therefore less expensive. The French Federation has also planned to play the teams hopes in the rise of the curtain, which welcomes Serge Milhas, coach of Saint-Jean-de-Luz : “We prefer to that that go to Rennes, Nantes (as the last season, editor’s note). It is top, in addition to we are going to move with two teams, so our young people will discover the true concept of the derby.”
The native of Tarbes, former player of Lannemezan and Auch, was pleased to find in the pool 3 teams gersoises (Auch, Lombez-Samatan and Fleurance) and 2 of the Hautes-Pyrenees (Lannemezan and Bagneres-de-Bigorre). “It is a culture of rugby, it is the land of rugby, there are big stories, those clubs who breathe our rugby in the South-West (…) I the printing of return to amateur rugby I have played, there are 25 or 30 years.”
A hen homogeneous
A hen totally unprecedented compared to past years that brings a breath of freshness in the eyes of Arnaud Héguy : “delighted to be able to confront with more than half of the teams that we did not met last year.”
Moreover, the departure to the Pro D3 of the bigger stables, who sought access to the professionalism and’s”arm” as a result for several years, allows you to level sportingly the championship. “It is quite homogeneous, plussoie Frederick Tauzins, necessarily this can feed a few ambitions.” Back at Anglet, after two seasons in the Dax, the coach would like his team took the opportunity after last season’s complicated : “it was most in these bigger teams, why not be in brawl”
Arnaud Héguy is shown to be more careful with regard to the ambitions of Mauléon, promoted that has surprised everyone this past season (5th in the pool 3) but that will have to carry the more hard to confirm this. On the other hand, he joined his counterpart angloy arguing that apart from “maybe Saint-Jean, which acts as the favorites of the hen, after the games will be tight enough.” This promises a good battle, the spectacle and the beautiful game expensive of the 3 clubs from the basque country, and hope of the craze.
The championship of Federal 1 must start the weekend of 12 and 13 September. The corporate practices with contact can resume as early as this Monday, June 22, just announced by the government.
–
