The election for the presidency of the French Football Federation will take place on March 13.
The home stretch of the campaign promises to be eventful between the three candidates: Michel Moulin, Noël Le Graët and Frédéric Thiriez.
The latter was indignant at the remarks made by the current president of the "3F" questioned Wednesday on the tensions in recent months within the French women's football team between some players and the coach.
Believing that the results were there, the Guingampese leader considered that there was no need to intervene in the debates.
"Les Bleues have not lost a match since the 2019 World Cup. So they can pull their hair out, I don't care," Le Graët said on the subject.
“Where are the values of football?
This gentleman, who visibly no longer controls his expression or his impulses, is unworthy of representing the first French sport ”
Frédéric Thiriez
Former president of the Professional Football League and lawyer by training, Frédéric Thiriez judged the statements of his opponents "shameful" in a press release, denouncing words of "violent misogyny".
"After his irresponsible statements on racism, Mr. Le Graët reoffends with remarks of violent misogyny, shamefully discriminatory", regrets the 68-year-old candidate who drives the point home: "Where are the values of football?
This gentleman, who visibly no longer controls his expression or his impulses, is unworthy of representing the first French sport ”.
My press release following the shameful statements of Mr. Le Graet.
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- Frédéric Thiriez (@FThiriez) March 3, 2021
In his press release, Frédéric Thiriez recalls that Noël Le Graët, in an interview with
BFM Business
last September, declared that "the racist phenomenon in sport, and in football, in particular, does not exist or hardly exists."
Words that had provoked strong reaction, on the part of former internationals like Patrice Evra or Patrick Vieira, but also of the association SOS Racisme.
On the wording, Le Graët had recognized a certain awkwardness a month later but on the merits, the boss of French football was camping on his position: “It was perhaps poorly expressed, it is possible.
but I still say that there is less racism in football than elsewhere.
When I see everything that is done in the clubs, at all levels ... "
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