Top 14. Ugo Mola (Toulouse): “The management of the players of the XV of France remains my problem”
By Clement Mazella
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This 2022-2023 season is going to have a very special flavor. In fact, it precedes the world Cup, organized in France from September 8 to October 28, 2023. For all the Top 14 clubs, it will be necessary to put up with it, with in particular many players who will have this deadline in mind. This is even truer for a team like the Toulouse stadiumlargest provider of the Blues.
Precisely, what impact will the World Cup have on the coming year of the club with 21 Brennus shields? “That’s a real and very good question. It calls for a lot of reflection on our part, but not only “, replied Ugo Mola this 1uh September. And the manager of the Rouge et Noir started the machine:
It did not escape you that I was not coach of the XV of France, and that what was going to happen within this team was not asked my problem. However, the management of the players of the France team remains my problem. As a result, from the moment we said that, and we draw up this picture, it is obvious that a season of 30, 35 games as Antoine (Dupont), Romain (Ntamack) or even François (Cros) will be detrimental to the success of their World Cup. However, there is what I want to do, what Fabien Galthié wants to do, what the players want to do and what unfortunately life will allow us to do with constraints, injuries, deadlines , the needs of the club.
Mola: “I can tell you that there is a planned rotation”
Ugo Mola also indicates thathe recently exchanged with Fabien Galthié, the coach of the XV of France, and also received the visit of several members of the tricolor staff. “We talked, just like with our players, and we set the scene. I am not a fan of the planned rotation, but I can tell you that there is a planned rotation, based on period data, so that we manage to spare our troops, ”reports Mola. He therefore indicates that a management of the Blues has been devised so that they are in optimal shape for the World Cup.
But Mola wants to make one thing clear: his priority is Stade Toulousain. “What we will never put in the balance is the general and main interest of the club, namely to perform and continue to have a team that will play the leading roles. I will not sacrifice the results of the club in front of anyone and anything”.
He is not going to war against the XV of France, let that be clear. Especially since the Toulouse manager promises “to put everything between (his) power to allow (his) players, and as many as possible, to perform the World Cup in France”. And Mola to use a bit of philosophy to conclude: “But it’s very far. And to think very far away makes us forget the present…”
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