In June 2023, François Bruneau took over as president of Tours volleyball, following the surprise resignation of Bruno Poilpré. Aged 55, this native of Tours managed the company Axxome Propreté for seventeen years, which was sold a little over a year ago (this company had never been a partner of TVB). He managed around 320 employees: “The main objective of the president of a club like ours is to keep it at a high level. That is to say, even if we don’t talk about it this year, we must above all avoid financial problems. We must manage to coordinate a high-level sports team by controlling budgets and find the finances to balance these budgets.”
Tours volleyball has won 28 titles in 20 years
“It’s a club that has won a lot of titles. In 20 years, 28, so that’s several per year. It’s regular and omnipresent pressure, from the public but also from the players who come to Tours volleyball to win titles. So we have to provide the means, the structure, the organization, in order to optimize the capacity and performance of the players and go for titles every year.”
“Every year, we are expected”
“Every year, we are expected. At least in the final. So we always try to win. But sometimes, like last season, we are vice-champion of France (Editor’s note: Tours volleyball was beaten by Saint-Nazaire in the final)”.
League A volleyball results over the last ten years:
2015 : Tours
2016 : Paris Volley
2017 : Chaumont
2018 : Tours
2019 : Tours
2020: no champion due to Covid pandemic
2021 : Cannes
2022: Montpellier
2023: Tours
2024: Saint-Nazaire
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