Berbizier puts boot into Laporte

Last updated at 16:42 29 January 2007


Italy coach Pierre Berbizier has 問題／発行するd a scathing attack on フラン 相当するもの Bernard Laporte just days before the two 会合，会う in the 開始 match of the RBS 6 Nations 選手権 in Rome on Saturday.

Berbizier questioned Laporte's ability to lead フラン to World Cup success on home 国／地域 in October.

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The former フラン captain, who also coached Les Bleus between 1991 and 1995, （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that compared to 目的（とする） Jacquet - who led the French football team to World Cup glory in 1998 - Laporte does not have the 教祖的指導力 and personality to help the 国家の team 解除する the much-coveted トロフィー.

"There was the 'Jacquet 影響' 支援する then," Berbizier told L'用意する.

"I do hope that フラン will be 栄冠を与えるd world 支持する／優勝者 but, like many people, I have my 疑問s.

"Do we really know what we are doing? We know that there is a World Cup coming up and many people believe that because it takes place in フラン, it's going to be like in 1998.

"The only 有罪の判決 I have about this World Cup is that it will be a 広大な／多数の／重要な popular success in the country."

Berbizier also criticised Laporte's 管理／経営 of the team during the 2003 World Cup - where the French were 除去するd in the 半分-決勝戦 at the 手渡すs of 支持する／優勝者s England - and most recently, during Les Bleus' 壊滅的な Autumn

実験（する） matches, which saw Laporte's men 苦しむ a 47-3 thrashing by New Zealand.

"The players are not the 優先 反して the coach is at the heart of the problems," 追加するd Berbizier. "The 権利 questions are not raised."

About the 2003 World Cup he 追加するd: "We had a 広大な／多数の／重要な 今後 line 有能な of destroying all our 競争相手s but we lost our strength in the most important moments.

"We talked too much and did not work enough and in the end we lost the World Cup."< /p>

Berbizier, who led フラン to a third-place finish in the 1995 World Cup and has been Italy's boss since April 2005, also believes he could do better than Laporte.

"Without 存在 envious of Bernard Laporte, I have never seen so many 資源s put at the French team's 処分," he 追加するd.

"I would have liked to have as many 支援する in 1995. But 存在 given all the 存在するing 資源s to be a success is one thing, using them 適切に is another."

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