Mignoni has since been suspended for six weeks by the National Rugby League’s disciplinary committee on Thursday for his behavior. At the end of the match against Clermont (19-18 defeat), he had to be held on the edge of the field by two of his players so as not to rush straight towards the referees.
Agricole’s interim period is therefore set to continue, starting on Saturday during the reception in Montpellier. The former fly-half or center, however, has all the ingredients of a good coach. She was one of the faces of the French women’s team for 83 caps and more than 10 years (2003-2014), and retired at the end of the World Cup played in France, with a third place in the key.
After her retirement from sports, she retrained in rugby, obtaining her physiotherapist diploma in 2014. She was on the staff of Rennes, her club with which she was twice vice-champion of France, member of the committee director of the French rugby federation and consultant for France Télévisions. She then did a stint as a physiotherapist with the French women’s team before joining Toulon in 2020.
“A huge service to the club”
And it is his role as physiotherapist that takes precedence, whatever his title on the match sheet. It was Pierre Mignoni who appeared before the press after the defeat on the lawn of Racing 92 (22-6), without wanting to comment on the situation. “As long as Pierre (Mignoni) cannot be there, it is certain that she will be important for us in communicating with the players, and on the match sheet. But Sandrine is above all focused on her main role, that of physiotherapist,” explained sideline coach Sergio Parisse on Thursday at a press conference. She provided “a huge service to the club,” he praised. “Mathieu Bastareaud (team manager) and Luc Van Wassenhove (intendant) managed this in the last days before the match [contre le Racing 92] and it went very well. »
Same tone from the side of the scrum half of the harbor Baptiste Serin: “I received a lot of messages to find out if she had become a coach and, no, she has not become one, she is still a physiotherapist” he said. he assured at a press conference. The captain of the XV of France during the tour in Argentina recognizes that his qualities go further. “We are happy to see Sandrine, she is the first female face on the sidelines. Even if she is very shy and very modest about it, she knows rugby very well through her career and her diplomas.”
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