Noël Le Graët was dismissed this Wednesday as the president of the French Football Federation, following a meeting of the executive committee. Philippe Diallo, vice-president of the aforementioned federation, now takes the post on an interim basis for an indefinite period, as provided for in federal statute,
At first, his statement that if Zidane called him to ask for the position of coach of the “turkeys” national team and that Le Graet would not open the phone call, many football stars replicated him and kept Zidane’s side. Also, serious accusations of mismanagement of the budget within the federation, as well as accusations of sexual harassment by a football agent, influenced this decision to be finally taken.
