Presidency FFF: Le Graët will say "after the Euro" if he wants to continue

Paris (AFP)

Noël Le Graët, whose term of office as President of the French Football Federation runs until the end of 2020, will indicate "after the Euro" (12th June-12th July) if he intends to be a candidate for re-election. he said in an interview with AFP.

Elected at the head of the FFF in June 2011, before being reappointed in December 2012 and March 2017, the leader of soon 78 years has not yet revealed his intentions.

Why does not he? "Currently, there are so many issues underway: the professional league is trying to reform itself, a new board, a new governance, there are all these discussions that I participate in. So I can not say if I stay or if I leave for the moment, "he said.

Relaunched, the former president of Guingamp (L2) and ex-socialist mayor of the Breton city said for the moment grabbed by "other important issues, including the Euro". "We'll see after," said the leader, suffering from lymphoid leukemia before the World-2018.

In April, the president of the FFF already had the blur in an interview with AFP. "My term runs until 2020. Wisdom would stop me, I said that four years ago, I do not always tell the truth," he amused himself.

For the moment, no candidate for his succession has declared himself, but the names of some personalities of French football have been quoted in the press.

Florence Hardouin, the general director of the FFF, whose management causes internal friction? "No, it's not his thing," Le Graët evacuates.

Michel Platini, former glory of the Blues and former boss of UEFA? "Why not, but you always have to win an election," he recalls.

While their relationship cooled, when Platini was serving his four-year suspension of all football activity, the leader of the FFF explained: "He had a little unhappy sentence stating that the Federation had not nothing done for him, quite frankly, apart from moral support, I do not see what I could have done. "

The episode now belongs to the past, according to him: "If he wants to return to the position he wants, it does not bother me at all."

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