He is now the boss of a historic French rugby club, which has been suffering for years. Shaun Hegarty formalized Friday, alongside future ex-president Jean-Baptiste Aldigé, his arrival as new president of the supervisory board of Biarritz Olympique. The former three-quarter center, champion of France in 2005 and 2006 under the colors of the BO, will be accompanied by two other ex-rugby players, his partner at the time on the pitch Marc Baget and the South African Flip van der Merwe .
The trio is piloting the project, supported by investors whose identity they withheld during the handover press conference, supposed to relaunch an institution which is fighting to remain in Pro D2 and which had been put up for sale in February for a symbolic euro by its owner, Louis-Vincent Gave. “The club was in difficulty, I worked with several people on this project and we could not let this happen without taking action,” he explained.