Late Wednesday afternoon, the newspaper L'Equipe announced that Florence Hardouin had been hospitalized after suffering severe chest pain.
This Thursday, the sports daily clarified that the general manager of the French Football Federation had in fact suffered a heart attack and that she is still hospitalized in intensive care.
A heart attack linked to the last trying months for the 55-year-old woman, tested by multiple internal conflicts and laid off on Wednesday as a precaution by the Executive Committee of the FFF.
A decision which was not a surprise as it was in tune with the times in view of the latest developments in the psychodrama of the governing body of French football.
The main interested party herself had confided that she expected such an outcome.