Last Saturday, the rugby field came back to life with the Archiball who made their rugby comeback, for a 2019-2020 season which looks good according to the club president, Philippe Salvat. A return to sport preceding the sports forum, which will take place at the Mercure hotel and in which the Archiball club will participate.
Many players responded present Saturday on the Bellevue field for a warm-up. From U6, through U14, to seniors, the club retains its workforce from last season and hopes to strengthen it for this year. For Jérôme Dubernet, coach of the Archigirls, the club's female team, "the workforce is the same as last year, plus three or four new ones who have just joined the club". This Wednesday, the girls will pass the physical tests before seriously attacking the season, since they will participate in two championships. First a leisure championship where all the girls in the group will be involved, then, according to the wishes of the Guadeloupe Rugby Committee, an agreement with the Saint-Barthélemy club will be put in place to participate in the official FFR championship of Guadeloupe.
If there are 17 players, knowing that the women's championship in Guadeloupe is played at 7, "everyone must be available," says Jérôme Dubernet. Also, to allow the entire workforce to participate in training, the sessions will take place on Wednesday at 18:00 p.m. and on Saturday morning from 11:30 a.m., "which should allow everyone to be there." The calendar of the season has not yet been determined by the Guadeloupe Committee, but the coach Dubernet hopes to make a first tournament in Saint-Martin or Saint-Barthélemy, "in any case we will try to play the fastest possible ”. The agreement being with the Rascasses de Saint-Barth, "we will organize small friendly meetings and joint courses".
President Salvat ensures that a special effort will be regularly made in terms of communication, through Hubert Fleming, and that with the arrival of new partners many events will be set up._RM
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