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Fidji 7s : Kolinisau veut donner rendez-vous à LA 2028

Le Fidjien Selesitino Ravutaumada (à droite) célèbre avec le Fidjien Terio Tamani Veilawa (à gauche) après avoir marqué un essai lors de la demi-finale masculine de rugby à sept entre les Fidji et l'Australie pendant les Jeux olympiques de Paris 2024 au Stade de France à Saint-Denis, le 27 juillet 2024. (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA / AFP) (Photo by CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images)

Osea Kolinisau, entraîneur en chef de l’équipe masculine de rugby à sept des Fidji, aspire à conduire son équipe aux Jeux olympiques de 2028 à Los Angeles.

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Il a pris les rênes de l’équipe seulement quatre mois avant les Jeux olympiques de Paris, où elle a remporté une médaille d’argent, ajoutant ainsi à ses médailles d’or obtenues à Rio et Tokyo. La France a décroché l’or au Stade de France.

Kolinisau doit rencontrer cette semaine les administrateurs provisoires de la Fédération fidjienne de rugby pour présenter son plan pour l’après-Paris et espérer obtenir la confirmation de sa possibilité de conduire l’équipe aux prochains Jeux olympiques dès la semaine prochaine.

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« Mon cœur a toujours été avec les Fidji, et j’apprécie l’opportunité de bâtir cette équipe pour les quatre prochaines années », a déclaré Kolinisau au Fiji Sun, lui qui a été le capitaine de l’équipe qui a remporté la médaille d’or aux Jeux olympiques de Rio en 2016.

« Il y a beaucoup de jeunes dans l’équipe, mais je dois également penser à ma famille. Si ma famille est d’accord, je serai ravi de rester pour quatre ans.

« Je verrai ce qu’ils en pensent. J’aimerais continuer, mais la décision leur appartient. Je suis fier du noyau actuel de l’équipe, avec beaucoup de jeunes âgés de 24 à 26 ans. Nous savons quel niveau de jeu on attend de nous et nous avons une base solide sur laquelle nous pouvons nous appuyer si l’opportunité nous est donnée. »

Le président par intérim des administrateurs de la Fédération fidjienne de rugby, Peter Mazey, a déclaré : « Je suis fan de ce qu’il a réussi à faire. Il n’est arrivé qu’il y a quatre mois et on est passé de 22 tournois sans résultat à une médaille d’argent aux Jeux olympiques. C’est une réussite remarquable.

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« Il a insufflé du sang neuf tout en conservant quelques anciens joueurs. Son contrat actuel, qui était celui qu’il souhaitait, se termine en septembre. J’ai discuté avec lui, et il souhaite continuer à travailler avec l’équipe. Le conseil d’administration va certainement vouloir continuer à travailler avec lui. »

Cet article originellement publié sur RugbyPass a été adapté par Willy Billiard.

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JW 1 hour ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

In another recent article I tried to argue for a few key concept changes for EPCR which I think could light the game up in the North.


First, I can't remember who pointed out the obvious elephant in the room (a SA'n poster?), it's a terrible time to play rugby in the NH, and especially your pinnacle tournament. It's been terrible watching with seemingly all the games I wanted to watch being in the dark, hardly able to see what was going on. The Aviva was the only stadium I saw that had lights that could handle the miserable rain. If the global appeal is there, they could do a lot better having day games.


They other primary idea I thuoght would benefit EPCR most, was more content. The Prem could do with it and the Top14 could do with something more important than their own league, so they aren't under so much pressure to sell games. The quality over quantity approach.


Trim it down to two 16 team EPCR competitions, and introduce a third for playing amongst the T2 sides, or the bottom clubs in each league should simply be working on being better during the EPCR.


Champions Cup is made up of league best 15 teams, + 1, the Challenge Cup winner. Without a reason not to, I'd distribute it evenly based on each leauge, dividing into thirds and rounded up, 6 URC 5 Top14 4 English. Each winner (all four) is #1 rank and I'd have a seeding round or two for the other 12 to determine their own brackets for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. I'd then hold a 6 game pool, home and away, with consecutive of each for those games that involve SA'n teams. Preferrably I'd have a regional thing were all SA'n teams were in the same pool but that's a bit complex for this simple idea.


That pool round further finalises the seeding for knockout round of 16. So #1 pool has essentially duked it out for finals seeding already (better venue planning), and to see who they go up against 16, 15,etc etc. Actually I think I might prefer a single pool round for seeding, and introduce the home and away for Ro16, quarters, and semis (stuffs up venue hire). General idea to produce the most competitive matches possible until the random knockout phase, and fix the random lottery of which two teams get ranked higher after pool play, and also keep the system identical for the Challenge Cup so everthing is succinct. Top T2 side promoted from last year to make 16 in Challenge Cup

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JW 6 hours ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

I had a look at the wiki article again, it's all terribly old data (not that I'd see reason for much change in the case of SA).

Number Of Clubs:

1526

Registered+Unregistered Players:

651146

Number of Referees:

3460

Pre-teen Male Players:

320842

Pre-teen Female Player:

4522

Teen Male Player:

199213

Teen Female Player:

4906

Senior Male Player:

113174

Senior Female Player:

8489

Total Male Player:

633229

Total Female Player:

17917


So looking for something new as were more concerned with adults specifically, so I had a look at their EOY Financial Review.

The total number of clubs remains consistent, with a marginal increase of 1% from 1,161 to 1,167. 8.1.

A comparative analysis of verified data for 2022 and 2023 highlights a marginal decline of 1% in the number of female players, declining from 6,801 to 6,723. Additionally, the total number of players demonstrates an 8% decrease, dropping from 96,172 to 88,828.

So 80k+ adult males (down from 113k), but I'm not really sure when youth are involved with SAn clubs, or if that data is for some reason not being referenced/included. 300k male students however (200k in old wiki data).


https://resources.world.rugby/worldrugby/document/2020/07/28/212ed9cf-cd61-4fa3-b9d4-9f0d5fb61116/P56-57-Participation-Map_v3.pdf has France at 250k registered but https://presse-europe1-fr.translate.goog/exclu-europe-1-le-top-10-des-sports-les-plus-pratiques-en-france-en-2022/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp has them back up at 300k registered.


The French number likely Students + Club, but everyone collects data different I reckon. In that WR pdf for instance a lot of the major nations have a heavily registered setup, were as a nation like England can penetrate into a lot more schools to run camps and include them in the reach of rugby. For instance the SARU release says only 29% of schools are reached by proper rugby programs, where as the 2million English number would be through a much much higer penetration I'd imagine. Which is thanks to schools having the ability to involve themselves in programs more than anything.


In any case, I don't think you need to be concerned with the numbers, whether they are 300 or 88k, there is obviously a big enough following for their pro scenes already to have enough quality players for a 10/12 team competition. They appear ibgger than France but I don't really by the lower English numbers going around.

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