Splendor and ostracism… For more than twenty years, Claude Atcher had been described as the “businessman of French rugby”.
The one to whom everything succeeded.
A copious address book, networks in France and abroad.
He knows everyone.
And many are indebted to him.
This interpersonal skills, he built it patiently.
After his retirement from sport - the third line of Nîmes then Racing had been a finalist in the French championship in 1987 -, this Aveyronnais had converted to public relations for national and then international events.
He had made his debut during the World Cup… of football in Italy, in 1990, the Universal Exhibition in Seville or the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. But it was in his favorite sport that he would become essential .
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In the early 2000s, dubbed by Bernard Lapasset, then president of the FFR (before becoming the boss of world rugby), Claude Atcher won the organization of the 2007 World Cup. In charge…
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