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Agustin Pichot has staked his bid to become chair of World Rugby on a modern, more inclusive global game that gives emerging nations a greater voice in a major shake-up of the sport that reflects changing and challenging times.
Pichot had proposed the concept of a Nations League in 2019 that would combine the northern hemisphere Six Nations, and the Rugby Championship in the global south, into a single competition that would include so-called emerging countries. But his plan was knocked back, leaving him “frustrated” at what he perceived to be the slow realisation at the top of World Rugby that there is a desperate need to evolve the sport.
Key to that investment, he said, is creating a more attractive product for broadcasters and sponsors when there potentially is a fight among sports for dwindling financial resources. Pichot said Luxembourg-based private equity group CVC Capital Partners, which has invested in the English Premiership and is looking to take a stake in the Six Nations, shares his vision. “CVC, who came into Six Nations, can tell you the same thing. They want an organised [global] calendar.
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