Former rugby international Jean-Pierre Lux, who chaired the ERC (which managed the European Cups) for fifteen years, has died at 74, the president of the French Rugby Federation Bernard Laporte said on Tuesday.
“I learn of the death of Jean-Pierre Lux.
A man of commitment, he has worn the jersey of the XV of France 47 times.
President of the European Rugby Cup, member of the LNR Steering Committee, he was also a great leader.
All my condolences to his family and loved ones, ”Bernard Laporte tweeted.
I learn of the death of Jean-Pierre Lux.
A man of commitment, he has worn the jersey of the XV of France 47 times.
President of the European Rugby Cup, member of the LNR Steering Committee, he was also a great leader.
All my condolences to his family and loved ones.
- Bernard Laporte (@BernardLaporte_) December 15, 2020
Originally from Tyrosse (Landes) before wearing the colors of Dax and reaching the final of the French championship in 1973, the three-quarter center was international 47 times from 1967 to 1975, winner of the Grand Slam in 1968, he scored 12 tries with the Blues.
The USDax club just lost one of its own.
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Jean Pierre Lux left us last night at the age of 74.
https://t.co/MzxHV6JLgT
- USDax Rugby Landes (@usdaxrugby) December 15, 2020
A dental surgeon by profession, he became a leader after his career, in Dax, then in the National Rugby League where he was a member of the Committee from 1998 to 2012 and finally within the FFR from 2012 to 2016. In At the same time, he chaired the ERC, the organizer of the European Rugby Cups from 1999 to 2014.
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We have lost a lord
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Pierre Albaladejo
Asked by Rugbyrama, the former president of Stade Toulousain, René Bouscatel, paid him a vibrant tribute.
“I am very saddened by the loss of a friend whom I appreciated very much, someone who is kind, always optimistic and positive.
He was a great president of the ERC and has not always had the recognition of French rugby for everything he has contributed in this regard. "
The one who was his partner in Dax and in the jersey of the France team, Pierre Albaladejo, confided his immense pain to the newspaper Sud-Ouest.
“We lost a lord.
It all came together in that man.
(…) On a field, he had the intelligence and the science of the game, a sense of anticipation, he knew where to go when necessary.
He also had this sense of sacrifice.
I rarely saw him get balloons stung, but I saw him give gold balloons. "
Le Figaro sends its most sincere condolences to his wife, Annette, and to his children.
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