WORLD CUP – Noël Le Graët: “Ministers are changing. Much faster than presidents”

“The goal is reached.” Noël Le Graët had not waited for the duel against England in the quarter-finals to decide on the future of Didier Deschamps. “I’ll be honest: my wish is that Didier stayshad dropped “NLG” in the columns of Figaro. Who do you want to find better?” So inevitably, the quarter won by the Blues only reinforced his desire. “The team is calm today. We are lucky to have a good coach, a good staff. There is no slippage. The players need to be reassured and we have around them a high quality management team“, greeted the president of the 3F in an interview with the L’Equipe channel.

Under contract until December 31, 2022, Didier Deschamps now has control over his future. Logically given the course of the world champions, who are still in the running to keep their planetary crown despite the mess packages. “Didier Deschamps has not lost his touch. He exudes happiness, the players too, it shows. The question of extending is totally up to him. Finding a coach of this quality is not easy. It is he who decides, I hope he will say yes. But it still deserves, especially on his part, a reflection“, explains the former president of Guingamp or the LFP.

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Obviously delighted to see his protege meet expectations, Noël Le Graët relishes this welcome course for the Blues in Qatar. It is a nice little patch of blue sky. In the midst of a storm for months now for the positioning of the FFF in relation to the World Cup in Qatar, its outings on the various societal subjects but also the sensational revelations of So Foot on the management of the FFF and its behavior “inappropriate“With some employees according to testimonies collected by Radio France, the boss of the FFF has indeed experienced a stormy period. But he remains straight in his boots. “The only people to whom I am accountable are those of the federal assembly. I was elected fifteen months ago with 72% of the votes“, he boasts.

If his relations with the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra are particularly tense, Noël Le Graët even takes care of putting the dots on the i on his vision of these controversies. “I had three cancers. Returning to office, those are victories. A wrong word in any newspaper can’t upset mehe says. Impossible. (…) Ministers are changing. Much faster than presidents. (…) Everyone must stay in their place“. And besides, he looks at the sequel with envy. “The only thing that could make me quit is health“, he warns as he was elected until 2024.

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