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Final phases for seniors, persistent challenges among young people. Overview with Éric Giorgi, co -president of the Coq Léguevinois.
The beginning of May rhymes with rugby with the smell of the final stages. And this 2024-2025 season is no exception to the rule for the Coq Léguevinois senior teams. “Our two teams have not yet finished,” says Éric Giorgi, co-president of the club. Our reserve, very young and mostly the result of our training, qualified despite a regular phase in a sawtooth during the reserve championship. She nevertheless managed to qualify for the matches with direct elimination and will play this Sunday on the Tuc’s field on Sunday. If the club’s objective is achieved with a fifth place in the ranking, the will of the staff and the players is to go as far as possible in order to close a very good season.
Promoted in Federal 2 After a relegation last year, the pennant team saw an awake dream. “Our goal was to maintain and install our team sustainably at this level,” recalls the coq co -president.
With his 12 victories in 22 games, the Léguevinois finished the season in second place, obtaining a direct qualification at the same time for the final stages.
-What is the secret of this success? “A new duo now directs the team (Editor’s note: Julien Mir and Bastien Bourdette), turned towards an offensive rugby, and the mayonnaise took. We did not expect such a success. We will start the final stages on May 11 with determination”. Until considering a rise in federal 1? “Of course we think about it, but going higher would be very complicated in view of the sporting and financial criteria required,” recognizes Éric Giorgi.
As for cadets and juniors, in agreement with the neighbor of the Racing Club Salvetat-Plaisance, if these training courses had started pretty well, the rest was more complicated.
The two training courses will play the Occitanie challenge in order to close “a half-tone year. We encounter difficulties in maintaining our workforce. Despite everything, our project remains the same: we aim to advance our young people to the senior group.
To date, only four of them will claim to evolve next year with them. “A concern shared by many clubs, say the leaders.
