The conclusions of the audit and control mission within the French Football Federation after the publication by the magazine SoFoot of an investigation pointing to numerous dysfunctions within the FFF, will be revealed “around mid-February”, said Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra on Saturday. on RMC.
“We will have conclusions which are rather around the end of January which will then require having a contradictory stage with the leaders of the FFF, we will have a restitution rather around mid-February”, explained the minister from Qatar where she must in particular attend the quarter-final of the World Cup between France and England.
During her trip to Qatar, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra and the president of the FFF Noël Le Graët questioned by SoFoot who mentioned in particular, on the strength of anonymous testimonies, the sending of SMS of a sexual nature to employees, should “cross paths”: “I will have the opportunity in the coming weeks to talk a lot with him, to go to the base things on the conclusions of the audit, when this audit will be finalized”, she insisted.
The promise to get “to the bottom of things”
According to the FFF, three defamation complaints have been filed, by the institution itself, by Noël Le Graët and its general manager Florence Hardouin. “I want things to be natural, to be informal, there’s no reason to tense the atmosphere, it’s been very good so far, I don’t at all want my coming here be a source of tension”, added the minister who described herself as “a woman of dialogue” wishing to “behave politely with the president of this federation”.
“We will get to the bottom of things in due time and in the appropriate circumstances,” concluded the Minister. The Minister of Sports announced on September 16 that she was going to undertake a mission from the General Inspectorate for Education, Sport and Research (IGESR) to audit and control “on the management of the Federation and the compliance with the obligations attached thereto”.