As we suspected, the resignation of Noël Le Graët on Tuesday is not enough to satisfy all the players in French football. Apart from Jamel Sandjak, the president of the Ligue Paris-Île-de-France, who had chosen to resign from the executive committee of the French Football Federation (FFF) five days earlier, all the rest of the Executive Committee intends to remain in office until the end of 2024, as stipulated in the mandate of Noël Le Graët and his elected team.
President of the Aquitaine Football League, Saïd Ennjimi confided on this subject in Le Parisien: "To hear the Comex say that the dysfunctions are not systemic is to say that everything is the responsibility of Noël Le Graët. However, by definition, there are complicated subjects that some were more or less aware of. It's hard to stay in place this way when your elected lead candidate leaves. To say that everything is one man's fault is not enough for me."
"Fractures that will last"
The wish of the former professional referee is therefore clear: "Calling a new election would definitively close the chapter. Because the mandate will last almost two more years. If they had put their mandate at stake, we could have stood together, but here, by maintaining themselves in this way, I think that there are fractures that will persist. I would have preferred us to take advantage of this difficult moment to organize a real debate, in front of everyone, program against program."
Similarly, Saïd Ennjimi is considering convening a federal assembly of dismissal before the one scheduled for June 10, supposed to determine the possible successor of Philippe Diallo. "The FFF needs to be revitalized," insists the leader. The end of the crisis is not yet in sight for French football.
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