The president of SOS Racisme Dominique Sopo considered "scandalous" the words of Noël Le Graët.

Two days after Neymar's accusations of racism against Alvaro Gonzalez during a PSG-OM, the president of the FFF considered that racism in football "does not exist or hardly exists".

The president of SOS Racisme, Dominique Sopo, denounced Wednesday the "scandalous" remarks of the president of the French Football Federation (FFF) Noël Le Graët, considering that racism in football "does not exist or hardly exists".

"To solve a problem must still admit that it exists. Here we are dealing with a leader who shows willful blindness, who explains that there is nothing, and it is moreover this he had done last year about homophobia ", reacted Dominique Sopo, the day after the words of the president of the FFF. 

Noël Le Graët's "voluntary blindness"

"In a match, there can be gaps, but overall we have less than 1% of difficulties. There have been but you know, when a 'black' scores a goal, the whole stadium is on its feet . The racist phenomenon in sport and in football in particular, does not exist, or little ", had estimated Tuesday Noël Le Graët on

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The figure mentioned by the leader refers to that of the report of the National Observatory of Delinquency and Criminal Responses, made public in May 2019, which says that "less than one percent" of incidents recorded in amateur football were "at racist or discriminatory character ”, during the 2017-18 season. 

Le Graët spoke two days after the PSG-OM match and the incident between Neymar and Alvaro Gonzalez, which created controversy.

The Brazilian accused the Spaniard of having called him a "monkey" during the match won by OM (1-0).

Perhaps it is time for Le Graët to "hand over it"

"When it comes to this kind of reflection on the part of a leader of the FFF, we have something to be particularly shocked. Yes there is racism circulating in football, on the field but also in its governing bodies . It may be time to pass the hand, "added Dominique Sopo.

About fifteen activists from SOS Racisme and the Union des Étudiants juifs de France (UEJF) organized a "flash action" protest in front of the FFF headquarters in Paris and unfurled a banner "Racism, sexism, homophobia: c ' is a little Christmas every day ".

Olivier Dacourt, former French international, and now consultant for Canal Plus, also reacted on Wednesday to the release of Noël Le Graët.

"It's getting embarrassing," tweeted the former AS Roma player and author of a documentary on racism in football.