“We are like the fingers of the hand”
Jacky Lorenzetti (left), president of Racing 92, and Laurent Travers, general manager of Ciel et Blanc, Tuesday, at the club’s headquarters, at Plessis-Robinson (Hauts-de-Seine). Francois BOUCHON/François Bouchon / Le Figaro…
“We are like the fingers of the hand”
Jacky Lorenzetti (left), president of Racing 92, and Laurent Travers, general manager of Ciel et Blanc, Tuesday, at the club’s headquarters, at Plessis-Robinson (Hauts-de-Seine). Francois BOUCHON/François Bouchon / Le Figaro
INTERVIEW – The president of Racing 92 and his manager, who will succeed him next season, confide in their relationship.
In May 2006, Jacky Lorenzetti became the president of a Racing which lived in the second division. He made it one of the best clubs in France, “qualified each season for the final phase of the Top 14”, welcomes the 75-year-old leader. For ten years, he has linked his destiny to Laurent Travers, who first trained the Ciel et Blancs with Laurent Labit, before becoming sole manager since 2019. In a month, Travers will experience, at 54, a new promotion in becoming chairman of the club’s board. A timely development for the technician feeling that the end of the cycle has arrived. Although he insists:We played 16 quarter-finals, 9 semi-finals and 4 finals (Top 14 and Champions Cup)”. And he does not hide his ambition: to win a second title after that of 2016.
LE FIGARO. – What memories do you have of your first meeting, more than ten years ago?
Jacky LORENZETTI.- It was during a lunch with Pierre Berbizier (Racing manager from 2007 to 2012, Ed)
