US EditionBreakaway Rugby League R360 Scrums Down with 885 Backing
R360 will feature 12 global franchises with top players earning up to $1 million per season, aiming to modernize rugby with shorter seasons and better player conditions.
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Imagined by former players, this league wants to recruit the best players in the world, which does not appeal to the leaders of the current jurisdictions.
Mike Tindall secures three years of funding to form rebel rugby league
Mike Tindall has secured three years of funding for a breakaway rugby league, which he believes will transform the sport.The former England international, who is married to King Charles III’s niece Zara Tindall, confirmed the backing in September, marking the most significant step yet in his bid to launch a global competition.As the son-in-law of Princess Anne, Mike has long balanced his royal connections with a high-profile sporting career.Sinc…
While the project of a closed league called R360 continues to stir up the debates in the French rugby, many voices stand up against its emergence. Among them, that of Abdelatif Benazzi, president of the High Level Committee of World Rugby and vice-president in charge of the International in the French Rugby Federation. The former international is firmly opposed to ...
Like tennis or football – and its famous Super Ligue – the rugby is under threat from a rebel league project led by the Englishman Mike Tindall, world champion in 2003 and a member of the British royal family. Named "R360", this project aims to create a circuit of twelve franchises, with eight men's teams and four women, built around a national or regional identity. Sixteen weekends during, franchises would play in major stadiums in London, Pari…
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