His speech is rare, but the period is special. The former president of the FFR, Bernard Laporte, forced to resign after his two-year suspended prison sentence in the Altrad-Laporte affair, confides while the federation is precisely looking at his succession. “When it’s over, it’s over. I’m not pulling strings, I’ve moved on,” he retorts straight away. the team on his close ties with certain members of the FFR.
“I don’t want to coach unless it’s a national team”
On the contrary, he intends to take advantage of his summer vacation before “moving and seeing a lot of matches” of the next World Cup organized in France in September and October next. “I am convinced that this is my World Cup. I want to live it to the full”, he announces. He even offered his services to RMC, “the day before or the day after the matches of the French team”. Before soon finding a bench? “I don’t want to coach, unless it’s a national team,” warns Bernard Laporte. But in the meantime, he must concretize “a very big professional project in the business”.