Gervais Martel, former president of RC Lens, is a candidate for the LFP board of directors

The board of directors of the Professional Football League (LFP) is certainly attracting a lot of covetousness. Gervais Martel, former president of Racing Club de Lens, also wants to sit on it, franceinfo learned on Thursday, August 22, confirming information from ParisianThe election is scheduled for September 10. Gervais Martel, 69, is a member of the current board of directors of the LFP, in the college of independents.

To be re-elected, the historic boss of RC Lens must obtain two sponsorships from the Union of Football Actors, the UAF [qui regroupe le syndicat des joueurs (UNFP), le syndicat des entraîneurs (Unecatef), les médecins, administratifs du sport et arbitres]He will be interviewed on Friday by the Union of Football Actors (UAF), just like Christophe Bouchet, the former president of OM who is a candidate for the presidency of the LFP.

Gervais Martel did not, however, confirm to franceinfo his desire to run for the post of president of the League, as several media outlets have claimed. “For now, I am only a candidate to be elected as an independent member, as I have been before.”he declared to the Parisianwithout excluding it.

Cyril Linette, former sports editor at Canal+ and former general manager of The Teamalso ran for the presidency of the LFP. “We need a different profile at the head of the League”he assured on Wednesday on franceinfo. The current head of the League, Vincent Labrune, is criticized for the sharp drop in television rights, which now bring in 500 million euros per season, far from the billion euros hoped for.