Toulon might even win the World Cup

Thanks to its success in the final against Clermont on Saturday May 2 Toulon made history by becoming the first rugby team European champion three straight seasons. Toulon The former coach Daniel Herrero, also famous for its red bandana for his championship of France (1987), returns to the upward trajectory of Toulon Rugby Club (CTN), also on course for a league doubled since Mourad Boudjellal took the presidency in 2006.
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What role should the European tripled Toulon?
Daniel Herrero: This performance is intended to remain in the history of rugby. It is probable, if not certain. But you still have to remember that it is part of a relatively recent event. In this Juvenile European Cup [whose 20th edition was celebrated this year], any extraordinary performance ranks quickly as rare. Especially with the emphatic way of reading the world that is ours today in rugby but also in life in general.
Taking a slightly longer time, for now, Stade Toulousain brand even more history than Toulon. In fact, when you win four European Cups and as many champion of France titles Toulouse in twenty years [nine coronations since 1994], you register you even more time.
So how would you rate the performance of RCT?
Two parameters are that this performance is unique and innovative. This team of Toulon is extraordinary by its building architecture and its talent agglomerate forty-five to fifty international players recruited from around the world. First, the team is the result of a very specific method. She wants out of all conventional sizes, out of all recruitment to regional or national character.
The team was built with the deliberate intention to buy what there is of best in every position on the market for rugby. It is empowered only play two competitions, the championship of France and the European Cup, but would have the level to participate in all international competitions. Toulon could participate in the Six Nations and win it. Toulon could even perhaps participate in the World Cup and win it.
What most players stand?
Right now, in the very brilliant players, I think Leigh Halfpenny. He was already considered last year as the top scorer in the world behind Jonny Wilkinson. Well, retired after Jonny Wilkinson party Toulon took Halfpenny [from Cardiff Blues]. Besides him, there is also a sling load of peaceful upscale warriors. Obviously I think Bakkies Botha, Carl Hayman and Chris Masoe ... Today, on the scale of world rugby, there are no exceptional star. But otherwise, she would be in Toulon.
The victory of Toulon she relies solely on an assembly individualities?
As my mother would say, when you have the best players in the world, you have still a chance to get on the podium of the championship of France ... But then for this regularity in the European Cup, we still have something else. In Toulon, it was necessary that this combination of players changes the community, it becomes a whole lot. And today, on the ground, thereby behaves as a collective team. Between players, you feel what I would call positive relational fragrances. Everyone is very connected.
Toulon he managed to erase that mercenaries club image?
There is little time, it was said the president of Toulon [Mourad Boudjellal] "To want to buy everyone, it takes for whom? "Now, many people say," Oh, him, he was able to buy good players. "To become a legend, you have to have something that looks like the plume at the beauty. And I think the players are taking the path.
Yet behind the idea to recruit the best players around the world, there is still always the moral burden, this suspicion clouding club radiation. In other words, there is the idea that the thought "capitalist", the capital, human enough to trade sports club to succeed. And there is also a big sports downside: Toulon aligns on average between 70% and 90% foreigners International; this mode of operation has in it a lot of danger to the France team [which enjoys little success of Toulon, only four French international has been tenured in the final against Clermont].
Carl Hayman, Ali Williams and Bakkies Botha should stop their careers late in the season. What does the future look for Toulon?
Even then, when the club had recruited Tana Umaga, and then he left the team [from 2007, it will still remain as manager], we thought it could weaken. Same for Jonny Wilkinson year. Yet behind this flamboyance, there is recurrence. Toulon continues to play with order, method, application.
But beware: evidence, groups agglomerate fast as Toulon may disintegrate as fast as they were able to build. Unlike purely emotional group, a group of mercenaries may explode if there is stagnation or regression performance. If the collective performance deteriorates or is damaged, the mercenary - player that you buy to protect your colors in a relatively short time - will eventually retract its own interest. So there is always a danger on the transience of these teams there.