2023-06-14 13:55:20
Florian Grill, the new president of the FFR until December 2024. JOEL SAGET/AFP
ANALYSE – Less than three months from the World Cup in France, the leader of the opposition was elected this Wednesday president of the Federation to replace Bernard Laporte, who resigned. But he will have to govern in cohabitation.
His time has finally come. Beaten by very little in 2020 in the previous presidential elections – 51.47% of the vote for Bernard Laporte, 48.53% for him – Florian Grill gets his revenge. At the time, during an already very tense campaign, the resigning president of the FFR had not spared him. Swinging a bit courteous”Grill, who cares! Only his mother knows him“… The president of the Ile-de-France Rugby League (since 2017) was initially flabbergasted. Before deciding to laugh about it.
Three years later, it is clear that many of them know him. And to trust him. At 58, he is the boss of French rugby, elected with 58.14% of the vote. A meteoric rise. Pierre Camou, the predecessor of Bernard Laporte, who died in August 2018, Serge Blanco had then set his sights on this dynamic entrepreneur, at the head of the marketing and media consulting agency CoSpirit Groupe since 1994, to leave for the fight…
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