{"id":300785,"date":"2025-08-06T16:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/300785\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:41:09","slug":"un-nouveau-visage-a-la-tete-du-rugby-anglais-et-cest-une-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/300785\/","title":{"rendered":"Un nouveau visage \u00e0 la t\u00eate du rugby anglais\u2026 et c\u2019est une premi\u00e8re !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c0 deux semaines du coup d\u2019envoi de la Coupe du monde de rugby f\u00e9minin en Angleterre, une page historique se tourne \u00e0 la t\u00eate de la Rugby Football Union (RFU).<\/p>\n<p>Le 1er ao\u00fbt, Deborah Griffin est devenue la premi\u00e8re femme \u00e0 pr\u00e9sider la f\u00e9d\u00e9ration anglaise en 154 ans d\u2019existence. Un symbole fort pour le rugby f\u00e9minin.<\/p>\n<p>C\u2019est une figure incontournable du rugby britannique qui prend les r\u00eanes de la RFU. Deborah Griffin succ\u00e8de \u00e0 Bill Beaumont, pr\u00e9sident par int\u00e9rim depuis d\u00e9cembre 2024, et ancien capitaine du XV de la Rose.<\/p>\n<p>Si son nom reste encore m\u00e9connu du grand public en dehors du Royaume-Uni, son empreinte sur le rugby f\u00e9minin est consid\u00e9rable.<\/p>\n<p>Ancienne joueuse au Richmond FC, Deborah Griffin a toujours \u0153uvr\u00e9 pour le d\u00e9veloppement du rugby f\u00e9minin, bien avant que celui-ci ne trouve sa place dans les grandes institutions.<\/p>\n<p>En 2010, elle entre au conseil administratif de la RFU, avant d\u2019\u00eatre \u00e9lue au comit\u00e9 directeur en 2014, puis d\u2019int\u00e9grer le bureau d\u2019administration de World Rugby en 2018 \u2014 une premi\u00e8re pour une Anglaise.<\/p>\n<p>Mais son engagement ne s\u2019est pas limit\u00e9 aux bureaux. L\u2019un des faits d\u2019armes les plus marquants de son parcours reste la cr\u00e9ation de la premi\u00e8re Coupe du monde de rugby f\u00e9minin en 1991, aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de trois co\u00e9quipi\u00e8res. Une initiative n\u00e9e sans soutien officiel, \u00e0 une \u00e9poque o\u00f9 les structures masculines ignoraient encore largement le potentiel du rugby f\u00e9minin.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah Griffin incarne \u00e0 elle seule l\u2019\u00e9volution d\u2019un sport longtemps r\u00e9serv\u00e9 aux hommes.<\/p>\n<p>Avec elle, la RFU ne fait pas que d\u00e9signer une pr\u00e9sidente : elle envoie un signal fort, \u00e0 l\u2019heure o\u00f9 le rugby mondial cherche \u00e0 conjuguer performance, \u00e9galit\u00e9 et repr\u00e9sentativit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A life dedicated to rugby \ud83c\udfc9 <\/p>\n<p>Deborah Griffin \u2013 who recently became the RFU\u2019s first female president in history \u2013 reflects on her unique journey through the sport, from discovering her passion at university to helping organise the first-ever Women\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rugbyworldcup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@rugbyworldcup<\/a> in 1991. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h03A4XdwA6\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/h03A4XdwA6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 England Rugby (@EnglandRugby) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EnglandRugby\/status\/1952770583143583861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00c0 deux semaines du coup d\u2019envoi de la Coupe du monde de rugby f\u00e9minin en Angleterre, une page&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1416],"tags":[1011,27,479,1468,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-300785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-fr","9":"tag-france","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-rugby-football","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@fr\/114982819157327484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}