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Volleyball: the cumbersome sponsor of the Beauvais club

2020-09-23T13:41:23.769Z


Promoted to Elite this season, the Goat Volleyball, who dreams of regaining the professional level, will be sponsored by Deli-Hemp, a specialist brand.


Five recruits, including 2.08m central Stanislav Simin (Ligue A champion and winner of the Coupe de France with Tours in 2013), and very ambitious goals ... Promoted to Elite this season, Beauvais hopes to hover over the championship which begins this Saturday evening with a trip to Charenton.

But if the Goat Volleyball intends to stand out from the crowd by its results, it is also already distinguished by its jersey.

The club relegated from Ligue A to N2 in September 2016 for financial reasons has just signed a solid sponsorship contract of 45,000 euros over three years with the company Deli-Hemp, which has existed for two years.

The brand, of which one of the thirty stores already open (with a target of 200 in France) is located in Beauvais, specializes in the sale of cannabidiol-based products, like some two hundred brands in France.

Commonly known as CBD, this other molecule contained in the cannabis plant does not alter thinking, mood and relationships with others, unlike THC.

Clearly, if these are two substances from the hemp plant and therefore cannabinoids, CBD is not psychoactive and therefore does not make you "stoned" unlike tetrahydrocannabinol.

If the substance is not illegal, it is on the other hand prohibited to present CBD products as having therapeutic virtues under penalty of criminal sanction.

However, it would have analgesic and tranquilizing powers according to some specialists.

Relying on the fact that the CBD no longer appears since January 2018 on the list of doping products established by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the president of Bouc Volley does not exclude the possible use of these products for his team.

“Why not for the recovery of players? Asks Eric Bataller.

It is a natural product that soothes.

And I know that in the United States for example, it is used in the medical field, it is not just anything ... "

"We do not close the door to a partner who wants to invest in the long term"

With this contract which can be revised upwards in the event of accession to Ligue B, the Goat Volleyball becomes the first collective sports club sponsored by Deli-Hemp.

The company has so far only been engaged with Allonne's fist boxing club, Team Baron.

She also sponsored the jersey game for the veteran Saint-Just des Marais football team.

Deli-Hemp will now appear on the volleyball jersey, but also on all the club's media in the 13 seasons of Ligue A and winner of the Coupe de France in 2008: the new website, the Youtube channel created or the various reports " inside ”.

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There remains the question of the image, inevitable, the activity of the company developing in a kind of legal vagueness.

"I am a pioneer, it is the only thing one can blame me, underlines Pascal David, the boss of Deli-Hemp, admitting to walk on eggshells on a daily basis.

I respect what the law says.

She tolerates me.

She didn't refuse me, she didn't accept me either, I know that.

"

Eric Bataller, he did not hesitate to engage with the company which has become, suddenly, the biggest private sponsor of the club.

“They will tell me that I am borderline, indicates the president of the Goat Volleyball.

We will not forbid people to say anything.

There is no shortcut.

I do not see on what basis I would refuse.

What he does is not at all illegal.

We do not close the door to a partner who wants to invest in the long term and promote the club with us.

You would have to be crazy ... "

The French Volleyball Federation is waiting to see ...

“It is a normal cosmetic / well-being activity, underlines Pascal David, specifying that a large part of his clientele ranges from 30 to 80 years old.

After that, it is true that it still seems atypical.

But we respect the legislation.

»In support, a colorful comparison.

“It's like a non-alcoholic beer,” he continues.

You have drunk four, like everyone else you have toasted, you want to urinate but you are not drunk ... If we are asked our position on the legalization of cannabis, we are completely on the same line that the government on this subject: we are strongly opposed to it.

"

On the side of the French Volleyball Federation, we are waiting to see.

"It is a real case to study, it never arose at the FFVB, underlines Eric Tanguy, the president of the body.

To speak out is impossible, especially when you discover it today.

There is the Evin Law.

Does it cover this kind of product or not?

We, our only position is the law.

I'll ask the lawyers to find out.

"

Source: leparis

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