The French Football Federation, shaken by tensions among its leaders, "has always held the course despite our quarrels", recalls the general manager Florence Hardouin in an interview with AFP qualified by a mea culpa: "My demand can sometimes result in too much authority ”.
“It's completely false (on the fact that she is the only one responsible for this tension within the FFF), it is not Florence Hardouin against the directors.
There have been tensions with some directors, it's true, it has reflected on others.
There were also tensions between them.
The best is to say things to each other, I regret that everything has been published in the press.
I played sports, everything that is said in a locker room must stay in a locker room.
Sometimes we said things face to face and the next day everything was in the press (...) And at the end, when you get to the end of the story, it's rubbish!
There we burst the abscess, we told each other things.
We are no longer children, sometimes it was a playground.
We were ruining our lives.
No one was good physically or morally, me first.
We're not at work to go on vacation together, but we're much more efficient when we get along well and laugh.
That does not prevent disagreements, which are also good.
If everyone says "amen" to everything, that doesn't work either.
The debates must be constructive ”.
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