{"id":5,"date":"2011-07-29T16:32:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T14:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/?p=5"},"modified":"2026-10-24T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:40:12","slug":"deces-de-monsieur-albert-ferrasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/index.php\/2011\/07\/29\/deces-de-monsieur-albert-ferrasse\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9c\u00e8s de Monsieur Albert Ferrasse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Norasi, serif; font-size: 18px;\">D\u00e9c\u00e8s de Monsieur Albert Ferrasse<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Norasi, serif;\">\u00a0L&rsquo;ancien pr\u00e9sident de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Fran\u00e7aise de Rugby (FFR) pendant pr\u00e8s d&rsquo;un quart de si\u00e8cle, Albert Ferrasse, est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 jeudi soir (28 juillet 2011) \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e2ge de 93 ans \u00e0 son domicile agenais.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Norasi, serif;\">\u00a0M. Ferrasse, natif de Tonneins (Lot-et-Garonne), \u00e9tait un ancien deuxi\u00e8me ligne du SUA, club d&rsquo;Agen avec lequel il a \u00e9t\u00e9 champion de France en 1945 (contre Lourdes) avant d&rsquo;en devenir le pr\u00e9sident \u00e0 partir de 1963. Il fut \u00e9galement arbitre et dirigea m\u00eame la finale du championnat en 1959 (Racing CF \u2013 Stade Montois).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Norasi, serif;\">\u00a0Dirigeant affirm\u00e9, il prit les r\u00eanes du Comit\u00e9 P\u00e9rigord-Agenais en 1966 avant de devenir deux ann\u00e9es plus tard pr\u00e9sident de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Fran\u00e7aise de Rugby, et ce pendant 23 ans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Norasi, serif;\">\u00a0D\u00e9cor\u00e9 de la L\u00e9gion d&rsquo;Honneur, celui qui eut \u00e9galement en charge les destin\u00e9es de l&rsquo;International Rugby Board (IRB) de 1979 \u00e0 1987, a travers\u00e9 de nombreuses crises \u00e0 la t\u00eate de la FFR jusqu&rsquo;\u00e0 son d\u00e9part en 1991.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Norasi, serif;\">\u00a0En d\u00e9cembre 2004, il avait \u00e9chapp\u00e9 \u00e0 la noyade apr\u00e8s la chute de son v\u00e9hicule dans un canal, sauv\u00e9 par trois personnes qui avaient r\u00e9ussi \u00e0 le sortir de son v\u00e9hicule en plongeant dans l&rsquo;eau.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Norasi, serif;\">\u00a0Certains ne voudront retenir que le caract\u00e8re omnipotent de sa pr\u00e9sidence. Ce serait oublier qu\u2019il a tout mis en \u0153uvre pour faire entrer la France \u00e0 l\u2019IRB (1978), qu\u2019il a \u00e9t\u00e9 un des principaux artisans de la cr\u00e9ation de la Coupe du Monde de Rugby, et qu\u2019il a \u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019un des premiers dirigeants sportifs \u00e0 s\u2019\u00e9lever contre l\u2019apartheid (en 1971, il a impos\u00e9 la pr\u00e9sence de Roger Bourgarel dans la s\u00e9lection fran\u00e7aise lors de la tourn\u00e9e en Afrique du Sud malgr\u00e9 l\u2019opposition des autorit\u00e9s locales).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Norasi, serif;\">Enfin, en 1990, conscient des difficult\u00e9s que rencontraient les grands bless\u00e9s du rugby (\u00e0 ce moment-l\u00e0 les indemnisations \u00e9taient peu \u00e9lev\u00e9es) il a cr\u00e9\u00e9 la Fondation Albert Ferrasse\/FFR qui apporte un secours mat\u00e9riel et moral aux victimes d\u2019accidents et \u00e0 leur famille.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', Norasi, serif;\">Ses obs\u00e8ques ont eu lieu le mardi 2 ao\u00fbt \u00e0 Agen (voir l&rsquo;avis de d\u00e9c\u00e8s ci-dessous).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7\" src=\"http:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/avis_deces_AF-269x300.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/avis_deces_AF-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/avis_deces_AF-768x856.jpg 768w, https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/avis_deces_AF-918x1024.jpg 918w, https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/avis_deces_AF.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u00e9c\u00e8s de Monsieur Albert Ferrasse \u00a0L&rsquo;ancien pr\u00e9sident de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Fran\u00e7aise de Rugby (FFR) pendant pr\u00e8s d&rsquo;un quart de si\u00e8cle, Albert Ferrasse, est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 jeudi soir (28 juillet 2011) \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e2ge de 93 ans \u00e0 son domicile agenais.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/res.asso.fr\/archives\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}