Blues Coach Pressured for Tickets to French Team Match: Highlights from Inquiry into Sports Federations

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At the end of a not really uncompromising hearing from the Blues coach, the Horizons president of the commission of inquiry into sports federations, Béatrice Bellamy, asked him for tickets to see the French team play.

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He who tries nothing, achieves nothing, says the adage. And this even if the scene takes place in a committee of inquiry at the Assembly, all filmed by the cameras of the Palais Bourbon. Thursday, at the conclusion of the hearing of Didier Deschamps (during which he remained rather evasive) by the commission of inquiry into sports federations (let us recall for pleasure its exact title: “Commission of inquiry relating to the identification of operational failures within French sports federations, the sports movement and governance bodies of the sporting world as they have a public service delegation”), the Horizons president of the said commission, Béatrice Bellamy, did not lack sass.

So she said to the coach of the French football team: “I hope that you will keep good memories of this hearing on the occasion of this commission of inquiry. If this is the case, do not hesitate to invite everyone present to the next French team match. We

2023-11-03 17:34:20
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