Gérard Prêcheur, the former director of INF Clairefontaine, during a training session with the young people of the center.

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An anniversary of dark memory.

As our colleagues from RMC remind us, who invited the former director of INF Clairefonatine Gérard Prêcheur in the

After

Tuesday evening, it has been almost ten years since the quota affair splashed the French Football Federation.

Remember: in April 2011, Mediapart highlighted the hitherto secret project, discussed at a meeting of the national technical direction (DTN), to introduce quotas in the selection of young people trained in the Hope centers from the country.

It was also on this occasion that the words of the French coach at the time Laurent Blanc, present at this meeting, shocked public opinion.

“In France, we have the impression that we are forming the same prototype of players: tall, strong, powerful.

Big, strong, powerful.

What is there as big, strong, powerful now?

Blacks.

It's like that, ”he had said then during this conversation between four walls (with ears).

Ten years later, therefore, Gérard Prêcheur returned to this episode on RMC.

“There was a will of the Federation to establish discriminatory quotas for my taste.

I opposed it ", he asked at the outset. Before detailing the email he received at the time and in which he was asked" that there is no more 50% of young players who are candidates for the entrance examination [for entry to the INF] who have dual nationality.

To use an expression that shocked me a little, there had to be 50% of "true French", who only have French nationality.

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A sword blow in the Atlantic

“The next day, I sent an email to my national technical director, my hierarchical superior, explaining to him that I could not respond favorably to his instructions and that I was opposed to this policy.

A few days later, the case broke, ”he continues.

But despite the establishment of a commission of inquiry at the request of the Minister of Sports at the time, Chantal Jouanno, no real follow-up has been given to this case.

A real disappointment for the former director of the INF: “I stayed a few more years [at the FFF] to watch but neither the ministry nor the federation [led at the time by Fernand Duchaussoy] took sanction.

A few weeks later, Noël Le Graët was elected new president of the FFF and reinforced the DTN [François Blaquart, at the origin of the quota proposal] in his functions.

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