As part of the “Aqui es Campus” project, the ASBH club association inaugurated its new premises at the Stade Raoul-Barrière on Tuesday evening, thus providing its training center with top-notch sports, educational and social infrastructure.
From the outset, the president of the ASBH association Éric Freitas laid the foundations for a structure that started from almost nothing to arrive today at these brand new facilities. “We arrived 10 years ago with Christophe Chollet”, current sports director of the training center. “No employees, a bit of a drunken boat. I asked him to join me in a somewhat crazy project and since then a lot of things have been achieved.” The leader methodically evokes fluctuating but also lasting wanderings. The time comes for the figures, since the Béziers Campus was completed in less than 10 months over an area of more than 2,000 m². An association which greatly financed the construction of this triple building (to the tune of 2 million euros), also supported by the region and the CAF represented by Thierry Mathieu, “of public utility with this Campus emerging from the ground” dixit Eric Freitas.
An investment for the future
Florian Grill, the president of the FFR, made the trip. He congratulated the work accomplished and looked further ahead in his explanations. “Rugby is a social issue. There is not enough of it on the national territory and this type of action is a gold mine for the establishment of our sport, especially in Béziers which I know very well with my Languedoc roots This project is remarkable especially as the funds are mainly provided by this association.”
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ASBH still under municipal control?
Then comes the turn of Mayor Robert Ménard, the city councilor praising “the partnership between the professional entity and its amateur association guaranteeing its participation in the championship.” And with a wink, evoke the current situation in a possible recovery. “We always talk with a French group and another foreigner.” Concluding on an enigmatic note. “What if we kept this club in the end? By betting on this youth and this training center.” While these infrastructures will support this sporting, social and educational role, the ASBH still does not really know which flag it will fly to again in the coming weeks after the resignation of Chairman of the Management Board Jean-Michel Vidal.
