After football and basketball, Throw-in takes to rugby in Fougères

Launched in Fougères at the beginning of 2021, Replay (REJ), a system for social and professional integration through sport, is continuing its fourth session.

Fifteen young people, aged 16 to 25, joined the January 4 last the promotion which will end on July 31 next.

In addition to the soccer and basketballthe association diversifies its practices by also offering a cycle of ten rugby sessions.

Throw-in has signed a partnership with the rugby club of the country of Fougèreswhich provides its infrastructure at the Paron Nord stadium and one of its educators, Simon Martinais, to supervise the sessions with Pierre-Alexandre Lebeslourd and Melvin N’Zingoula, the two REJ educators.

Open doors

Youth week is structured as follows: soccer Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, basketball Wednesday morning and rugby on Friday morning.

For eight months, they have two hours of sport every morning.

Before starting this new discipline, only one of them had already played rugby.

They give 200%, it’s great.

Around sixty young people in total participated in the system Ferns since its creation.

Last year, there was a 92% success rate, that is to say fourteen out of fifteen young people having either found a job or qualified training. The objective is also to make them want to take a license in clubs in the country of Fougères.

Marin is part of the new promotion. “It was friends who did Re-en-game who talked to me about this,” he explains. Doing sport is motivating. I like football and rugby. It is faster “.

The young resident of country of Fougères thinks about two professional activities: “sports instructor” or “working in security”. “I’m going to try to do internships,” aims Marin.

In May, Throw in will hold open houses every Friday morning from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the South Paron complex. Young people interested in the system will be able to meet the educators there.

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