After a first blow in March on this subject, the striker of the French team shows his dissatisfaction after the refusal of the president of the Federation to modify the Convention of Rights in the image of the Blues.
by (with AFP)
In recent days, a controversy hunts another in French football. While the Blues have gathered since Monday in Clairefontaine (Yvelines) to prepare for their two nations games against Austria and Denmark, Kylian Mbappé “decided not to take part in the scheduled session” on Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday, For partners of the French team.
The attacker justifies this decision after the refusal of the French Football Federation (FFF) to “modify the Convention” of the players like players, he said on Monday in a statement transmitted to AFP. The star of the Blues and Paris-Saint-Germain “and his representatives (…) strongly regret that no agreement could, as requested, be found upstream of the World Cup” (November 20 to December 18).
The case is not new. In March, Mbappé already refused to comply with a marketing operation during a previous rally with the French team. During various meetings, the player’s advisers, including his lawyer, Delphine Verheyden, had been able to, “expose their position to the need to modify the convention governing the conditions of use of its image”, with the FFF leaders “, Continues the press release.
With this device, the Federation collectively manages the rights like the Blues. In return, each selected receives 25,000 euros per international meeting. An agreement in this sense had been written in 2010. Mbappé had signed it during his first in the French team, in 2017.
“Nothing will change by the World Cup”
Since then, the Bondy prodigy has taken another dimension and claims the right to refuse to see his image associate with certain official partners. Among these undesirable, Coca-Cola and the KFC fast food chain, or the Betclic online Paris site. We say, in fact, the player very concerned with junk food problems, but also concerned with the excesses linked to online bets.
His lawyer, Delphine Verheyden, defended, in an interview At the Parisian in March, The idea of a right of gaze. “It is important that players are in harmony with the advertisements in which they participate. They have for their young audience a model role. This role must be handled with care.”
In June, a meeting took place between the president of the FFF, Noël Le Graët, the lawyers and the mother of Mbappé to evoke the agreement which governs this famous collective image right (DIC) in the France team. To a first press release from the Mbappé clan, confident on the chances “to lead to a new version of the Convention upstream of the next World Cup”, Mr. Le Graët responds by delaying. “We had actually agreed together with a press release on a few points. The text which was finally proposed to me by the advice of Kylian crumpled me a little, admits the manager, interviewed by the team. This agreement does not concern that Kylian but well all the players of the French team. We must not forget either all the partners who give us a lot of money. “
The Breton indicated to relate M e Verheyden and the lawyer of the FFF, Yves Wehrli, to continue the discussions. Three months later, the boss of French football gave the subject later. “Nothing will change by the World Cup here,” he announced this Monday, still in the team.
Solicited by AFP, the federation had not reacted in the middle of the afternoon. Noël Le Graët and François Vasseur, marketing director, were expected in Clairefontaine, where they must meet with players and the principal concerned, Kylian Mbappé. When extending his contract with PSG, in May, the 2018 world champion was surprised by the importance taken by this story of agreement.
“What is funny is that before this March rally, I believe that no one has done even a brief on image rights … there was just this Small misunderstanding, but we will settle it very quickly. “Not so fast as that, if we believe his choice to stay in his room, at the time of the photo shoot, Tuesday in Clairefontaine.