After the controversial declarations of the president of the French Football Federation on Zinédine Zidane, Amélie Oudéa-Castera called the FFF executive committee to “take responsibility”.
By Rémi Dupré and Clément Martel
“Now, what’s going on?” At the desk of her ministry, Amélie Oudéa-Castera had not only come to present her wishes to the press on Monday, January 9. In the aftermath of the controversial declarations of the president of the French Football Federation (FFF), Noël Le Graët, on Zinedine Zidane, the Minister of Sports called the fifteen members of the Executive Committee (Comex) of the FFF to “take [their] Responsibilities “about the Breton leader, whose countless” successive road trips “came to the end of his patience.
Questioned Sunday evening on RMC Sport The day after the announcement of Didier Deschamps’ renewal at the head of the team From France until July 2026, Noël Le Graët expressed “having nothing to shake” the future destination of Zidane, declared candidate for the succession of the Basque. “I wouldn’t even have taken it on the phone,” he insisted, as casual as brittle on the old number 10 of the Blues, currently without club.
These derogatory words towards the French football icon provoked, Sunday and Monday, a unanimous lifting of shields. “Zidane, it’s France, we don’t lack respect for legend like that …”, Tuncued Kylian Mbappé on Twitter , when many voices called for the resignation of the 81 -year -old leader, head of the body since June 2011 and described by those around him as ” in freewheeling “.
a limited room for maneuver for the ministry
If she mentioned the “disappointment” of Emmanuel Macron after the words of “NLG”, a sign of the Breton disgrace at the Elysée, the minister is aware that her room for maneuver is limited. Anxious not to be accused of interference in the affairs of a sports federation, Amélie Oudéa-Castera was careful not to trample the flowerbeds of the FFF executive committee. If, statutory, he hardly has the power to dismiss Mr. Le Graet, ovationed at the Federal Assembly on Saturday, he can suggest that he leave or claim the holding of an extraordinary general meeting, the only authorized organ to question the president’s mandate.
But the “great elected officials” of the Comex, mostly indebted to the patriarch for years, abandon it in the middle of the storm? “A motion of distrust or a collective resignation would be an alarm signal, notes a familiar with the institution. But who, within the Comex, will have the courage to move first in the coming days?” Data-format = “inread” aria-hidden = “true”>
The fact remains that the recent slippages of Mr. Le Graet are not everything: several members of the Comex were particularly shocked that the boss of the “3F” managed solo, and on the Catimini, the extension of Didier Deschamps, before The Federal Assembly on Saturday.
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