The players’ agent denounces in a long interview with The Team the inappropriate behavior towards him of the president of the French Football Federation.
The ordeal lasted four years. From 2013 to 2017 when, tired of war, Noël Le Graët stopped harassing her. Sonia Souid, 37 today and mother of two children, was at the time one of the first agents to take an interest in women’s football. A subject that led him to contact the president of the FFF. For, in 2013, a first meeting. Not in the manager’s office but in his apartment.
“He says he does it regularly, it’s more convenient for him, more confidential. I accept. (…) I was 28 at that time. He has 72. He should have had that respect. He never looked at me as an agent but as a piece of candy. To speak vulgarly, he looked at me like two breasts and an ass!“, she says in his long interview granted to the sports daily.
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His testimony is edifying. Arriving in the apartment, two filled glasses of champagne await him. And, above all, the third person supposed to be present, Brigitte Henriques, supposedly canceled. Noël Le Graët does not hesitate. “You know, we don’t need her. If we’re both close enough, I’ll be able to make your ideas come true…“An introduction that leaves the young woman”taken aback“. “I left, telling her that I was going to join my fiancé. He let me go. Afterwards, he called me regularly to invite me to dinner.»
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“The only thing he wants is for you to share his bed…”
Then begins a drag “rather heavy“, regular reminders, but always making sure not to cross the limit. “He is very careful. He knows how to write messages, but little, and does not say anything.» (…) «Except when I’m at his house, when he made it clear to me that he would like me to end up in his bed. It is quite thin.But insistent. “Between 2013 and 2017, there are four times during which the president of your Federation flirts with you every time, asks you to see you, invites you to his house, dangles things for you, when the only thing he wants is to is that you share his bed. Psychologically, it is very difficult. Very regularly, when he went up to Paris and he was bored, he thought of Sonia. It took a while to get tired…»
She tells about the text messages, about ten. “Are you available tomorrow evening? I insist.” Or “I miss you“. And, above all, voice messages. Including that of 2017 which hurt Sonia Souid the most. “Sonia, I’m on my third bottle, I’m waiting for you for the fourth…“. The players’ agent to be ironic about the defense of Noël Le Graët claiming that he did not know how to write an SMS, “that he was challenging anyone to find anything on his account“. A cynicism that pushed her to finally speak.
“He is the king and the Federation his kingdom. He is not afraid of anything or anyone. He thinks he’s untouchable.”
“I felt him so comfortable, sure of himself. So the king… He is the king and the Federation is his kingdom. He does not reflect in his advances. He is not afraid of anything or anyone. He thinks he’s untouchable. It certainly is.She hopes that her testimony will put an end to this feeling of impunity. Encourage to “other women concerned to testify openly“.