Is a page turning at the French Football Federation? According RMC Sports And The Team, the current president of the FFF is about to resign. And this departure would even be scheduled for Tuesday on the occasion of the next executive committee of the body, according to the media specializing in sport. Noël Le Graët has already been withdrawn since January. But his entourage would now push him to convince him to leave.
“The extremely delicate current situation prompts us to hope for a healthy, expected and wise personal decision on your part,” district presidents would have sent him in a letter consulted by RMC Sport. “It would lead to reassuring a critical general atmosphere and finding a way out worthy of your ability to favor the best interests of French football,” they add.
Philippe Diallo for the interim
If he resigns, the statutes provide that the current vice-president, Philippe Diallo, will take over until the next federal assembly in June. The Comex will then appoint a personality within it, who must receive the approval of the federal assembly, to lead the FFF until the end of the current mandate, in December 2024.
A final audit report from the General Inspectorate for Education, Sport and Research (IGESR) on the dysfunctions at the FFF, pinpointed in mid-February the “behavioral drifts” of Noël Le Graët, “incompatible with the exercise of the functions and the requirement of exemplarity which is attached to it”.