Florian Grill was elected president of the French Rugby Federation a few months before the Rugby World Cup.
Florian Grill was elected president of the FFR this Wednesday, June 14 for the benefit of Patrick Buisson by collecting 58% of the votes of the votes of the 1,900 clubs in France. He replaces Alexandre Martinez who had been in the interim position since the resignation of Bernard Laporte. Florian Grill will have many assignments and deadlines over the next few weeks with the Rugby World Cup kicking off on September 8th. Opposing the former Minister of Sports, he said he was ready to collaborate with Patrick Buisson who was one of his relatives and his opponent for the presidency. “It’s obvious to us that we must not turn everything upside down three months before the World Cup”, had tried to gather a few weeks before the votes the new leader of the tricolor oval.
Biographical sheet. Florian Grill was born on October 14, 1965 in Montpellier. Rugby fan in the second line at the PUC during his youth, he always carried rugby in his heart. He was still vice-champion of France in the junior category. He was also a member of his school’s HEC team. Graduated in 1988, he then founded a communication company which named him Co Spirit in 1994. Later, he got involved in the Athletic Club de Boulogne-Billancourt as a coach before becoming its president. between 2009 and 2012. In 2017, he was installed as president of the Ile-de-France League. On Wednesday June 14, 2023, he rose again in rank by being elected president of the French Rugby Federation.
Before being president of the FFR, Florian Grill had already had a first-rate function in tricolor rugby. In 2017, the presidency of the Ile-de-France League was entrusted to him. His son then described his father three years ago as someone who couldn’t “lay on a couch. He spends his life roaming the grounds of the area. Every now and then I call him and ask him:” Where are you, dad?” And there, he tells me that he is in the middle of the departmental final between the girls of Gif-sur-Yvette and those of Orsay, or in the middle of a tournament of less than 12 years old in the Yvelines. He never stops”.
The new president of the FFR is going on his 58th birthday which he will celebrate during the next Rugby World Cup.
