Paris (AFP)
President of the French Football Federation from 1985 to 1993, Jean Fournet-Fayard died Sunday at the age of 88, the FFF announced in a press release.
"Jean Fournet-Fayard was a great leader, an honorary member of UEFA. As president of the FFF, he worked with passion for football, French training, notably with the inauguration of the Clairefontaine center, in 1988. He was a high-quality, multi-talented man, who knew several lives of leader, coach and player, "reacted the current president of the FFF, Noël Le Graët, quoted in the press release.
Elected at the end of December 1984 as president of the federation, this pharmacist by profession had been re-elected in 1988 and then in 1992. But he had chosen to resign at the end of 1993, after the fiasco represented by the non-qualification of the French team for the 1994 World Cup.
It was also under his presidency that France obtained the organization of the Mondial-1998, the first planetary coronation of the Blues.
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