INTERVIEW
He is one of the voices that carry in French football. After disputes with Roxana Maracineanu on stopping Ligue 1, Waldemar Kita put some water in his wine, as he explains at the microphone of Europe 1, Saturday evening. And the president of FC Nantes to recount the long exchange he had with the Minister of Sports on Tuesday to ease the tensions: "I would very much like a working group to collaborate directly with the Ministry of Sports because we we have experience, there is nothing better than the people on the ground, in the heart of the reactor, on a daily basis, it is very important ", defends the leader.
"This exchange was really very positive," said Waldemar Kita on Europe 1. "We did not agree on certain things, but I understand. It is important that club presidents can interact with the public authorities in these difficult situations. . "
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Hard words against Maracineanu
Earlier in the week, Waldemar Kita had not mince words against the Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu, with our colleagues in L'Équipe : "Giving lessons is fine. (…) This lesson is easy. I do not make politics, but that one stops wanting to teach us how to manage companies ", got carried away the leader. "We can also wonder why there weren't enough masks. So everyone has their own thing, everyone is judged afterwards. Plan, yes, but we did not plan to be left in the m **** . "
" In football, club presidents are considered pretentious and pedantic "If the president of the Yellow and Green believes that the decision to stop the championship of France "was taken too quickly" and that "perhaps that" the Germans were better organized than us ", Waldemar Kita" respects the decision taken by the government even if it would be a shame if it resumed elsewhere and not in France ", he underlines on Europe 1.
The Franco-Polish also regrets that the club presidents have not been listened to enough. "In football, high-level sport, we are (considered to be) pretentious, pedantic people, there is money, etc ... And it's a shame to have this image. We must not forget that the presidents of the clubs are enormously invested, they manage companies for twenty or thirty years, I allowed myself to say it. Let us leave the things to the professionals. "
Kita against remedies
Waldemar Kita also returned to the clubs that had filed appeals: "I understand that they have a personal interest. It's human, but I defend the interest of football, not my club. When we are in the Board of directors of the LFP, we must think of French football and not of its club. I think that the vote was made, that the law does not allow to be at 22 club. If I had thought of my club , I would have asked to stop on the 19th day, Nantes was fifth, and therefore European. "