Image rights: the Blues offer the French Federation a revised agreement

The Blues submitted this Wednesday a modified draft convention of image rights for internationals to the president of the French Football Federation (FFF), Noël Le Graët, they announced in a press release sent to AFP. Represented by their captain Hugo Lloris, they would like the new text to come into force in January 2023, after the World Cup in Qatar (November 20-December 18). The proposed document reduces the duration of the agreement “to two years”, and also returns to “the clarification of the rights of the FFF on the collective image of the France team” but also on the “right of each player on his individual image.

The current agreement, twelve years old, no longer suits the Blues. They had made it known together for the first time last March when Kylian Mbappé had questioned his participation in certain advertising operations. In September, the Paris Saint-Germain star regretted that the project was not moving forward, and the same day Noël Le Graët promised to “revise” the agreement “as soon as possible”.

The players want to be able to choose the companies they represent or not in the selection, whether this evening for their personal convictions or in the event of a conflict between an individual sponsor and a sponsor of the France team. The current agreement dates from 2010, it was signed after the Knysna scandal, strike of the players of the French team in the middle of the World Cup, which had prompted the FFF to develop a rigorous text on the representation of internationals .

Current commitments with sponsors prevent the agreement from being changed before the World Cup in Qatar, but the players are expecting a change in 2023. They want the duration “to be increased to two years so that it can be adapted to the outcome of each major competition (World Cup and Euro)”, specifies their press release.