INTERVIEW
"When the 25 members of the LFP bodies sit around a table, it is clear that only two of them are, as they say, from diversity." Guest of Europe 1 Tuesday, Jacques-Henri Eyraud, president of Olympique de Marseille, regretted the lack of diversity within the governing bodies of French and European football. "There is a glass ceiling, we have to change that," he pleads.
Pope Diaf, first and only black leader of a Ligue 1 club
On Saturday, he co-signed with Steve Mandanda, captain of OM, a forum in the World . "How to explain that the African player has made himself indispensable to European football when the African or African leader still does not manage to break the glass ceiling and occupy a place around tables still almost exclusively made up of dominant white males? ", they asked.
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OM, "club borrowing diversity, like the country", boasts its leader, is the only Ligue 1 club to have been led by a black president. Pape Diouf was president between 2005 and 2009. "He defined himself as an 'anomaly'," recall Eyraud and Mandanda in their gallery.
"We have to make progress at the level of the authorities," calls Jacques-Henri Eyraud on Europe 1. "And that goes through education. We must give talent a chance rather than its origins."