Pressured by sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Noël Le Graët complained to Emmanuel Macron’s entourage.
2022 hasn’t been easy for Noël Le Graët. If there were sports results, with in particular a finalist place obtained by Didier Deschamps’ French team during the last World Cup, the president of the French Football Federation had to face several controversies. Stories of text messages with a sexual background, an audit commissioned by the Minister of Sport on federal management. So many problems to manage for the octogenarian who ended up splitting.
The anecdote is told this Saturday in the columns of The group. The sports newspaper returns to an episode that would have taken place in Qatar, starring Noël Le Graët. Considering himself the goal of Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, president of the FFF ” he got angry with her towards the end of the World Cup, during an argument with a close friend of President Macron“. The media add that the episode has been reported to the main interested party who has not tasted the thing at all.
Annoying complaints
For this reason, the Minister would be more determined than ever not to do” no gift to Noël Le Graët at the end of the audit. Always second The groupthe manager also complained not be supported in high places“. Words that evidently are not liked by the President” he then raised the possibility of not coming, as he had planned, to the semi-final of the World Cup between France and Morocco“. Things finally calmed down and Emmanuel Macron came to support the Blues. But the bloodshed of Noël Le Graët has left its mark and the tension remains palpable within the FFF. Waiting for the conclusions of the audit which should take place by the end of February.
