Ira?
Won't go?
With less than two months of the elections to the French Football Federation, Noël Le Graët has still not announced if he is running for his own succession on March 13.
The question torments the amateur and professional world of the round ball suspended to the decision of the Breton leader.
Initially, Le Graët, 79, had planned to give his decision at the end of the elections in the football leagues whose votes end on January 30 with the Occitanie League and the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes League.
For its part, the FFF has set the submission of applications for February 11.
Ideal timing?
Not sure.
The former strongman of the Guingamp club has matured his reflection during the holidays and he could shorten the deadlines as he had already suggested in an interview with the Telegram last November.
In all likelihood, the Breton should therefore announce very soon that he is back for a third term since his first election in June 2011 in place of Fernand Duchaussoy.
The former president of the National Football League between 1991 and 2000 knows that a candidacy announced in the last hours of January would leave him little time to campaign and visit the newly elected steering committees in the regions.
In recent days, he has also looked at the members of his list who, in case of victory, will make up the next executive committee.
The master of clocks
Among his nine current running mates, it appears that the most notorious such as Jean-Michel Aulas, Marc Keller respectively presidents of Lyon or Strasbourg, or the former international Brigitte Henriques should once again be.
Still, her announcement - if she confirms her candidacy - will give the start of the campaign for the Federation.
For the moment, Frédéric Thiriez, the former president of the Professional Football League, and Michel Moulin, the businessman and former leader of Istres, the Red Star or ephemeral PSG, are his designated opponents .
But as long as Le Graët has not revealed himself, they preach a little in the desert, praising to whom better their desire to get the amateur world out of the rut where the current president would have driven it.
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Le Breton offers other angles of attack.
He has experienced snags in recent months with his controversial comments on racism, or criticisms of the internal management of the FFF with the criticized management of the Director General Florence Hardouin.
But as a master tactician, Le Graët lets time slip by.
He is still, and for a few days, the master of the clocks.