The first women's football division is definitely getting closer to its male counterpart in terms of extra-sporting twists.
After the funny affair Aminata Diallo-Kheira Hamraoui, which broke out on Wednesday, we learn this Thursday, from AFP which confirms information from the newspaper L'Equipe, that the French Football Federation has filed a complaint against X after female D1 players were contacted over bribery attempts.
"The FFF has lodged a complaint, in fact, after being alerted by clubs like Montpellier," said a spokesperson for the Federation to the agency.
The Team specifies for its part that the complaint was filed in September.
Players have received "weird messages on social networks", promising a sum of money in exchange for a match "arranged".
The sports daily mentions the sum of 100,000 euros in Bitcoin.
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It was the players themselves who notified their clubs, then allowing the clubs to alert the Federation.
An investigation is now underway, carried out, still according to information from L'Equipe, by the Central Service of Races and Games (SCCJ), "which has already conducted several hearings" specifies the daily.
"The players had the right reflex, they followed what was advised to them during training on corruption attempts: they alerted their clubs, which sent us back the information," said the FFF.
The same modus operandi, promising payments in Bitcoin against the arrangement of certain matches, had recently been observed in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, underlines the newspaper.
