"When we ask for a number of things, we've been treated like whimsical princesses."
- "For years we have been asking for a physical trainer and a gym with an appropriate weight to work the muscles. We have achieved them this year, but it is too late. Too many people have vanished from the group. Compared to the other groups, we have few resources. When we ask for these things, they've treated us like whimsical princesses. They are the words of Mélissa Hannouni, player of the Baiona rugby team (ASB). The weekend they stood in protest at the poor conditions in which they were in.
The radio station France Bleu picked up the words of Hannouni and her teammate Laura Delas the day after the girls of the ASB group were planted. On Sunday the match of the French Cup against the Occitan Toulouse was going to be disputed, but they decided not to play because they have few resources compared to the other Elite 1 teams and that the team leaders do not take their requests into account.
Baiona players have explained that the other teams are in full professionalization, while they are amateurs. They say they're really bad at infrastructure and training, and they don't have enough equipment to compete properly, because many girls have left the team in recent years. "Come on, but we can't attract girls," says Hannouni, "we don't have the economic resources, we don't have the means to help them find a home, with the same intensity as if they helped us find a job, so we're hardly going to bring new players..."
"They ask us to be top-notch players, but they don't give us the means," he added. -Love for the shirt... Yeah, we're going to flush the casings in the field, but that's not enough." He added that they are fighting for the ASB team, "also for rugby and for women's sport in general".
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