Asked about the comments made on Zinédine Zidane on RMC just after extending Didier Deschamps, at the head of the Blues, Noël Le Graët had caused a media outcry and general indignation by disrespecting the legend of the French team.
A few sentences that the former president of the FFF bitterly regrets.
He confided in the subject in a long interview with L'Équipe.
“
My statements were very clumsy.
I had just returned from Paris and it was the third journalist who asked me the question about Zidane, I had been friendly with the first two and with the third, I don't even know who it was (Marion Bartoli),
I was on the phone, I broke down.
That's smart, I would smack myself.
I should never have said that.
But I immediately apologized
,” he explained.
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During his time on RMC, Le Graët confided that he had "
nothing to shake
" at the idea that "Zizou" could be Brazil coach while the former No. 10 of the France team had been expected for years. months to replace Deschamps in the event of his departure.
