The region will, from Friday 28 April, embark on a major tour through Occitania to kick off the Rugby World Cup. In the program there are many events throughout the territory, but also the opportunity to win tickets for matches in Toulouse.
Occitania will be at the heart of the Rugby World Cup in France next fall. With five matches in Toulouse but also three base camps, Japan in the Pink City, Samoa in Montpellier and Portugal in Perpignan. But the goal is also to share the event with as many people as possible. Represented in the organizing body, the region chose, through Kamal Al-Shibli, its vice president in charge of sports, within the framework of the regions of France, to be offensive. “With 400 clubs and over 80,000 licensees, we are the rugby region, He recalls, on the eve of the launch, Friday 28 April at FOI, a fun and festive grand tour to highlight the World Cup. We’re almost at the beginning. It’s coming fast. We wondered how to be the locomotive at the national level.
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It thus results in a grand tour, a Tour de France-type village, which will run until September 8, 2023, the opening date of the opening match of the World Championship, in Paris, promoting rugby and the event through the 13 divisions of Occitania. For this, about twenty dates have already been set, to which a tour of the beaches on the coast in the summer should be added.
Winning tickets for matches in Toulouse
Concretely, the district will, for example, install a large platform of 200 meters2 On the sidelines of the “Occitani Derby”, between the US Football Federation and Toulouse, on May 13, in Aimy Giral, where the spectators of the match, as well as many young people from the rugby schools who will be invited, will be able to discover various entertainment: “In particular, we will install a small field with a pole so that children can enjoy the experience of transformations. There will also be various workshops, booths promoting the products of the region and a competition. Former France players will also be present and many goodies from the World Cup will be presented. It will also be an opportunity, for some lucky ones, to win the Holy Grail: tickets for matches in Toulouse.
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The region purchased 3,000 in total for the five matches in the regional capital (Japan-Chile, on Sept. 10; New Zealand-Namibia, on Sept. 15; Georgia-Portugal, on Sept. 23; Japan-Samoa, on Sept. 28; Fiji-Portugal on Oct. 8). I’ve already worked to deliver (between 20 and 40) each of the youth teams that win the various Occitanie championships and are working on other machines to get as many clubs involved as possible.
The date of May 13 will not be the only one in the Pyrenees Orientales. Another meeting is scheduled in the heart of Perpignan, the day of which has not yet been determined. And on July 22, the tour will pass through Argyles. At Aude, in Gruissan, on the 27th and 28th July, entertainment is given, before stopping at Halles de Narbonne on the 29th. More meetings should be added between now and the big launch of the World Cup in early September.
