Controversy over the arrival in Avignon of a rugby player suspended for racist insult
The Avignon rugby union club is recruiting a former rugby union player! It is rare that players go from XV to XIII. Usually it is rather the reverse. But this passage takes place under very specific conditions: Ludovic Radosavljevic returns to Avignon because he can no longer play at 15. He was suspended for 26 weeks by the rugby union federation for having thrown under the Aix-en jersey. -Provence one racist insult to a Cameroonian player de Nevers last September.
The scrum-half was due to play with the SOA in two weeks. Triple French rugby champion with Clermont-Ferrand and Castres, Ludovic Radosavljevic first had to convince the leaders of Sporting Olympique Avignon thathe regrets his racist remarks.
The club decided to give him a second chance. Wednesday, the federation of rugby a thirteen has suspended the new license by Ludovic Radosavljevic. An ethics committee must meet urgently on this “particular situation”.
Second chance hoped for in Avignon
Florian Bissière, vice-president of the Avignon club, obviously discussed these insults with Rado before signing: “Of course there was a discussion even before Ludovic started training. It was essential. People will say, we don’t care.”
“The main one was to give someone a second chance who regrets what they said prosecution the vice president of SOA. _This is his only gap in twenty years of career. Today, the attitude of rugby players is increasingly watched and so much the better because racism has no place in sport. Ludovic Radosavljevic told us’if i come i don’t want to give you any wrong. ‘ This charter of good conduct is imposed on all our players. The circumstances would have been different if he had not apologized. He’s someone who deserves a second chance. “_
License suspended by the FFR 13
The French federation of rugby a thirteen evokes “the particular situation of this player” and adds that “the license was immediately suspended as a precaution pending the opinion of the FFR XIII ethics committee seized urgently“.