José Ruiz: “It’s messy”
President of the Federation of Professional Coaches – which brings together many team sports – and of the Syndicate of Basketball Coaches, José Ruiz points out the dysfunctions and calls for a modernization of the process of integrating foreign coaches in France.
“Coaches still depend on a law of 1983 which regulated the profession to protect it, avoid usurpations – you have to hold a state diploma to practice. But forty years have passed, the borders are more permeable, the sport has changed, and even if we must remain attentive, these operations must be modernized. Taking into account the experience of a coach is the central point, like the validation of acquired experience introduced at the legislative level in 2002 – Social modernization law. The case of Will Weaver at Paris Basketball is symptomatic. We cannot consider that someone who has nearly twenty years of practice at the highest level does not have the skills equivalent to the BE2 necessary to train in France.
This is a problem that concerns all sports, which arose in particular in rugby for Jake White on his arrival in Montpellier. (2014)when he won the World Cup with the Springboks (2007). It’s messy. We have been proposing a simplification and acceleration of the Recognition and Qualification Commission process for years (CQR). It would be contradictory to oppose this when the National Sports Agency (ANS) itself solicits foreign coaches for the 2024 Paris Olympics. My position on the subject has been the subject of collective reflection within the Federation of Professional Coaches, which includes football, handball, rugby. »
