Philippe Diallo confirmed as president of the French Football Federation until 2024 – Liberation

The French Football Federation officially has a new face. Philippe Diallo was elected president of the FFF until the end of 2024, after a vote of the general assembly of the association, meeting this Saturday June 10 in Paris. Since the resignation of the historic leader Noël Le Graët, at the end of February, Diallo had become the interim president of the body. He was elected very comfortably, with 91.26% of the votes of the assembly bringing together elected officials and leaders of French football.

In the presence of his predecessor, invited to these states general of the Federation, Diallo first received the confidence of his executive committee, which proposed his name to the assembly to complete the current mandate, which extends until at the next elective federal assembly in December 2024. Then the some 200 elected officials gathered on Saturday in a hotel in the west of Paris confirmed his election by a very large vote.

Mission of appeasement

“By voting massively for me, you are doing me a very great honor. It is also a great responsibility that I measure because we have lived a number of difficulties these last months”, he reacted to the platform.

At 59, this former boss of the union of professional clubs, vice-president of the FFF since December 2021, has the main mission of appeasing a body tossed about in recent months by controversy. The “Fédé” was notably the subject of an audit commissioned by the Ministry of Sports, which in February pinpointed its managerial management and more particularly its policy for the fight against sexual and gender-based violence. Slippages and accusations of moral and sexual harassment led Noël Le Graët to resign after eleven years in office.

On Saturday, the Federation also proceeded to the election of district presidents Claude Delforge and Alexandre Gougnard, who both join the executive committee of the FFF by occupying the places left vacant by Noël Le Graët and by the boss of the Paris League. -Ile de France, Jamel Sandjak, who also resigned.