Smiling, relaxed, affable, Philippe Saint-André savors, with journalists, the victory of Montpellier over Bordeaux-Bègles in the semi-final of the Top 14, last Saturday in Nice.
The MHR manager takes his time, details his method, his mode of operation.
He jokes, answers all questions.
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Schedule and Top 14 results
Ranking Top 14
We are a long way from Saint-André coach of the XV of France, quavering voice and crestfallen mine, forced to find explanations for the endless sequence of famous "encouraging defeats" between 2011 and 2015. A mandate that ended with a humiliation in the quarter-finals of the 2015 World Cup against the All Blacks (62-13).
One of the blackest periods of French rugby which marked him deeply, to the point of not training for six years.
“I am very proud of my guys”
In Montpellier, "PSA" has turned the page and regained a taste for rugby, in the field, in the locker room.
Basically, the president of the MHR, Mohed Altrad, had recruited him in March 2020 to be general manager, in charge of recruitment but also of relations…
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