Through David ReyratPublished 2 hours ago, Update 25 minutes agoThe president of the FFR resigned after a request from the Federal Bureau this Friday morning.Earthquake at the head of French rugby. Bernard Laporte resigned from his post as president of the French Rugby Federation, at the request of the Federal Bureau meeting in Marcoussis this Friday morning. According to our information, the treasurer Alexandre Martinez will be acting president. A FFR congress will take place in Lille from June 29...
The WRU (Welsh Rugby Union) finds itself seriously splashed by an investigation broadcast by the BBC. A former employee of the Welsh Rugby Federation, interviewed on condition of anonymity, claims to have written a memo in 2018 for her husband in case she committed suicide, following sexist harassment from her male colleagues. The BBC also brought evidence charlotte wathanex-director of Welsh women's rugby, who denounces a "toxic culture".In 2019, at the Welsh training center in Glamorgan, "a man said he...
By Le Figaro with AFPPosted 44 minutes ago, Update 29 minutes agoDusan Vlahovic bought for 81 million euros from Fiorentina. Panoramic.Italian sports justice has decided to sanction Juventus Turin after accounting fraud that occurred during several transfers.Juventus Turin has been penalized with a withdrawal of 15 points in the league by the Italian sports justice due to accounting fraud during player transfers, the Italian Football Federation announced on Friday evening.Juve had been acquitted with ten other clubs in this case...
Australian international full-back Kurtley Beale was indicted on Friday on suspicion of sexual assault, local media reported. He was later suspended by the Australian Rugby Federation. "This action follows Mr Beale's arrest and indictment for serious criminal offences, and is in line with Rugby Australia's Code of Conduct for Professional Players," the federation said in a statement.Beale, recruited last year by the Waratahs team after two seasons at French club Racing 92, was in custody at a Sydney police station....
About 50 former amateur rugby players have seized World Rugby, as well as the English and Welsh Federations, in anticipation of a possible trial, claiming that these bodies had not done enough to protect them from concussions. “No matter what level of game you have played or play, whether in school or as an adult, as a professional or an amateur, male or female, we unfortunately see the same alarming neurological impairments at all levels of the game” , explained...
The pension reform should help finance the care of dependent elderly people, pleads in an interview with the Sunday newspaper Arnaud Robinet, President of the French Hospital Federation.The FHF, which represents 3,000 public Ehpad, will propose an “ideal” bill to take charge of dependency, intended to fuel debates on the subject within the framework of the National Council for Refoundation. It proposes to “review the economic model of public nursing homes”, 85% of which “will be in deficit this year”,...
After his promising World Cup with the Atlas Lions, but also in the wake of his marriage on Friday, attacking midfielder Zakaria Aboukhlal (22) would have done well without such controversy. This one is indeed accused by the Arabic-speaking media Achkayan "apology for Salafism" and "religious proselytism", in an article entitled "Aboukhlal, a Salafist in the national team".According to this site, he would have "tried to recruit players to his cause", and would have "appeared on several occasions with people...
The president of the French Football Federation (FFF) Noël Le Graët "wrote a letter" to the Argentine Federation after the mockery of Albiceleste players, in particular against Kylian Mbappé, he said on Thursday on a daily basis in Ouest-France.“I wrote a letter to my counterpart from the Argentine Federation, I find these excesses abnormal, in the context of a sports competition, and I find it difficult to understand. This is going too far. Mbappé's behavior was exemplary “explained Le Graët...
Argentinian goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez in Mar del Plata (Argentina) to celebrate his world championship title, December 22, 2022. MARA SOSTI / AFP The France-Argentina final of the 2022 FIFA World Cup will definitely remain apart. The president of the French Federation (FFF), Noël Le Graet, has decided to write to the Argentine Federation after the mockery of the Albiceleste players, in particular against the French striker Kylian Mbappé. “I wrote a letter to my counterpart from the Argentine Federation, I...
Bernard Laporte during a press conference in Paris on December 14, 2020. CHRISTOPHE ENA / AP The president of the French Rugby Federation (FFR), Bernard Laporte, sentenced on December 13 to a two-year suspended prison sentence for corruption, refuses to leave his post, insofar as he has appealed the decision, he says. he in an interview with Sunday newspaper of December 18. “I am a legalist: I don't see why I should leave. This would mean that I recognize the...
