At the head of French football since 2011, Noël Le Graët (here at the headquarters of the French Football Federation in January 2023), 81, leaves his post as president of the FFF in the turmoil. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP
NARRATIVE – Noël Le Graët resigns from the FFF but keeps his place at Fifa. Philippe Diallo will have the heavy task of succeeding him.
Isolated as ever and forced to give up under media and political pressure, Noël Le Graët has not been the big boss of French football since Tuesday morning. At 81, he would never have imagined such a stage exit a few weeks ago. During the World Cup in Qatar, in private, he swept aside any turbulence, laughed at the idea of a resignation and was casual in the face of pressure from Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra . Two months later, the sentence fell. Implacable. Isolated and cornered on all sides, inaudible to the accusations of moral and sexual harassment but also after the report of the audit commissioned by the ministry, the now ex-boss of French football was forced to resign from the functions he had held since 2011.
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His final exit will also have been polluted by the announcement of his rebound… at the head of the Paris office of Fifa. A position, confirmed by the members of the comex but of which Fifa ensures…
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