Last week, the management but also the personality of Noël Le Graët were heavily criticized in an article in the monthly
So Foot
evoking, on the strength of anonymous testimonies, the sending by the president of the FFF of SMS of a sexual nature to FFF employees.
The French Football Federation announced in a press release on Thursday that it had decided to file
“a defamation complaint”
against the magazine So Foot
“because of the seriously defamatory accusations contained in its September 8, 2022 edition”.
Since the publication of this article, Noël Le Graët and Florence Hardouin, the DG of the body, have been invited to
"a moment of exchange" on
Friday with the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, in her office in the 13th arrondissement. .
"I don't get them to have tea, I don't get them to be told that everything is fine.
I receive them because I need to listen to what they have to say to me,”
the Minister of Sports told Le
Parisien
.