It is an understatement to say that French professional football has given a funny image of itself in recent weeks. The decision to stop the Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 championships was passed by the LFP's board of directors, fueling its flood of protests. Clubs, notably Toulouse, Amiens and Lyon, plan to file appeals on the grounds of loss of opportunity. For Europe 1 football consultant Alain Roche, "the governance of the League is catastrophic". "There is a union for Ligue 1 clubs, another for Ligue 2 clubs, there is an office, a board of directors, an assembly, there are struggles for influence, nobody found there ", he thunders Sunday in Europe 1 Sport.
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Choices dictated by the French Football Federation?
The former player of Paris Saint-Germain is not tender with the French leaders. "The image is catastrophic from this point of view, everyone seeks their personal interest, which I can understand. But we must speak with one voice, we must not leave incredible scenarios and impossible to realize. C "that's what saddens me the most", storm Alain Roche, aiming without mentioning the president of Olympique Lyonnais Jean-Michel Aulas, who had submitted the idea of establishing play-offs to end the 2019-2020 season of Ligue 1.
The former defender also sees a lack of authority on the part of the Professional Football League: "What bothers me most is that it seems that decisions come from the Federation and less from the League. " The Professional Football League has indeed modeled the end of the championships on that of the French Football Federation. In addition, the president of the LFP, Nathalie Boy de la Tour, invited on Europe 1, herself noted a dysfunction in terms of governance, and calls for changes in the coming months.