Chauray was once a football land. Over the relegations of the neighbors, the Niortais chamois, the number of licenses has progressed in Rugby. The Chauray club evolves in Federal 3. Players are fighting for maintenance. The leaders are leading another fight, the decrease in alcohol consumption.
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Impossible not to notice the reminders of the order at the entrance to the Chauray club in Deux-Sèvres. Placed posters at the entrance to the House Club, self-service ethylots, everywhere it is indicated that alcohol is bad for health. That evening, after our shooting during training, the players meet, like everywhere, at the club of the club house but in the glasses, the promise is held. Mint syrup, grenadine and for the most recalcitrant, alcohol -free beer. “At the beginning, it was a little weird, but over the months, we got used to it. “Said Raphaël Mandret, one of the pillars of the ARCC.
What matters is not what is in our glasses are the moments of complicity and friendship that we share together.
End an end to the excesses due to alcohol
Since the start of the season, the Chauray rugby club has experienced a new label set up by The Olympic department committee and the association Promotion Health Nouvelle Aquitaine. Its name: 100% sport, alcohol -free sport, it's stronger.”Only two rugby clubs in the region have agreed to take up the challenge, Parthenay and Chauray, two teams of Federal 3. We don't really sell strong alcohol. We offer alcohol -free beer and many more “soft”, coffee, tea. We still have the right to sell beer, however. We must not rob people, but we feel that little by little the mentalities evolve ” Sébastien Dudognon, club president.
-More strong alcohol at the refreshment bar and the Chauray club house
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© Patricia Insi
“You need an awareness”
After the affairs of the French selection in Argentina, the trial of the Grenoble players in Bordeaux, the attacks in Dax bars, not a week without rugby and these “Famous” third half are shown to finger. What if ultimately the example came from amateur sport? “Yes it is difficult, the habits are there, but it takes an awareness. If after a match or a training too watered, a player or a supporter is drunk, if it causes an accident what is 'Will we say? It will throw the stigma on the club, on the discipline in general, “explains Pascal Vallès, police officer anti-drug trainer in Niort and educator in Chauray.
More strong alcohol at the refreshment bar and the Chauray club house
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© Patricia Insi
A subsidy in the event of financial losses
On match days, if the Chauraisian supporters used to do without strong alcohol, the players of the opposing teams are a little more surprised. “With us, it's not like that. Drinking a blow after the meeting is sacred. We, in team B, when we win, the president even gives us a ticket to take advantage of it ” joke a rugby player from Blaye in Gironde. The road is still long. For these amateur clubs, the refreshment bar is often one of the main sources of recipes. Money should not be an excuse not to try the adventure. The initiators of the project have planned everything. In the event of a drop in turnover, subsidies will compensate for the lack. Sébastien Dudognon has already stated that the system would be renewed next season. Will other clubs follow suit? On this ground, it is the clubs in the north of the region that show the example.
Rugby Magazine, your appointment with Ovalie, also invites you to find an interview in all sincerity of Yannick Bru, the Manager of the UBB, ambitious but very prudent.
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