From: afb-ekb@nospams.org   
      
    One feels very constant by the "Breton people", indicated Gareth   
   Jenkins, sporting director of the Welsh national team of Rugby at the   
   time of his visit of the stage of Nantes.   
   The World cup of Rugby approaches with great steps with the inaugural   
   match between France and Argentina on next 7 September.   
      
   This championship, third world sporting event in terms of frequentation   
   and media cover, is organized this year jointly by the federations of   
   Rugby of France, Wales and Scotland.   
      
   Nantes will be one of the cities where a part of the world cup with   
   Wales - Canada will proceed on September 9, England - Samoa 22   
   September, Wales - Fiji on September 29.   
      
   >From this point of view, the Welsh framing came to Nantes, 18 months   
   ago, to visit the stage of Beaujoire and the possibilities of lodging   
   suggested by the Breton city; as tells it Alan Phillips directing of the   
   Welsh team, as much the stage their rained, including by its history and   
   that of the FC Nantes, as much lodgings presented disappointed them, so   
   much so that the Welsh indicated to their Nantes hosts that they would   
   not settle in Nantes and that they would come by plane right before the   
   matches.   
      
   According to Alan Phillipps "I think of having somewhat upset them but   
   it is our team and her drive which count above all. It is at this time   
   that our interpreter says to me that the Breton coast was only at one   
   hour from there and that us should make a turn there ". And thus A.   
   Phillips met the persons in charge for the club for Rugby for   
   Saint-Nazaire to ask to them whether they would accept that the Welsh   
   team can entrainer on their lawn. "the Resident of saint-Nazaire ones   
   accepted and I have the impression that they were very honoured with our   
   request. Since they make very for us! It is one of the best things which   
   occurred up to now! "   
      
   Lodging was found in Pornichet in an establishment 3 stars.   
      
   And it is last week which the Welsh national team spent its first Breton   
   ground stay for on the one hand reconnaitre the places and to take her   
   first marks, on the other hand to select the 30 players who will take   
   part in the first match of the world cup.   
      
   The Welsh persons in charge did not dry up praises on the reception, the   
   equipment and the support of the Breton ones. This first week ended in a   
   match of qualification of the players, Friday July 27. Malgré the   
   tension which was already palpable a few minutes before the match of   
   selection which was going to determine the choice of the 30 players (out   
   of 40) for World Cup, the selector Gareth Jenkins made sign with the   
   delegation of the CREDIB (1), resident of saint-Nazaire association, to   
   come in the reserved zone to Welsh staff. For their last day out of   
   Breton ground, the CREDIB then gave to the Welsh persons in charge two   
   "Gwenn ha Du" and a dictionary Breton-Welsh as a sign of friendship. The   
   Welsh were deeply touched by this gesture and showed it with in   
   particular the demonstration of Alan Phillips, which, vis-a-vis with the   
   platform of the stage of Rugby of Saint-Nazaire where massed Breton   
   hundreds of supporters, agitated with spirit "Gwenn ha Du"   
      
   The Welsh also were very touched by the banners "Brittany Wales   
   supports". Environment was very Breton with a sound system with the   
   entry of the stage which passed in loop Stivell, Servat and grinds   
   bagadoù. Resident of saint-Nazaire Sporting which always had Breton   
   fibre seems to confirm its membership of the Breton planet Rugby with   
   the arrival of the Welsh rugbymen by affirming for the occasion proudly   
   the Breton identity of the Resident of saint-Nazaire ones.   
      
   The Research center and Diffusion of the Breton Identity - CREDIB   
   Sant-Nazer- decided to accompany the arrival by the Welsh selection by a   
   work of sensitizing on the thousand-year-old bonds which link the two   
   brittonic nations, so much in direction by Breton than in direction of   
   the thousands of Welsh supporters which will arrive in the wake of the   
   team of Wales. For this operation the CREDIB calls also upon the   
   Cultural Institute of Brittany.   
      
      
   The resident of saint-Nazaire country has a long tradition of Rugby:   
   resident of saint-Nazaire Sporting was created in 1909 and Rugby   
   Trignacais Club in 1912. The relations with Wales developed with the   
   coastal traffic between the wearing of Cardiff and St-Nazaire between   
   the years 1870 and 1930: the forging mills of Trignac (1879-1932) were   
   fed only out of Welsh coal and the forging mills had even concessions in   
   Welsh mines. There A were also 4 companies of conditioning on the port   
   of St-Nazaire of Welsh coal. The exposure "Of Cardiff in Trignac" that   
   the Town of Trignac for September with the support of the CREDIB   
   prepares will speak about all this common past between the Welsh south   
   and the Breton south.   
      
   --   
   http://www.alliance-federaliste-bretonne.org   
      
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