This Thursday, November 10, 2022, the French Football Federation met its executive committee. On the agenda: the future of the technical direction of arbitration (DTA), and that of its boss, Pascal Garibian. A much maligned man today, considered rigid and conservative by many presidents of professional clubs, while the controversies on the ground accumulate despite the establishment of video assistance. This Thursday evening, the FFF announces the ousting of Pascal Garibian.
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put forward several names to succeed him: Stéphane Lannoy, former international referee, Anthony Gaultier or Alain Sars. But beyond the names, Stade Lavallois coach Olivier Frapolli, interviewed at a press conference on November 3, expressed several wishes for French arbitration.
“Stick the pieces back”
The coach first pleads for the integration of a coach or a former player into the DTA organization. “This would bring the two parties, which today seem to be a little distant, closer together. And it is damaging. If we manage to strengthen this work of exchanges with technicians who go to refereeing and referees who go to technicians, we will be able to put the pieces back together“says Olivier Frapolli.
He also undertakes in favor of microphones on referees during matches. “We would also realize the excess of some players on protests. We would also see that some referees lack pedagogy, or show authoritarianism in their decisions.“. In addition, Olivier Frapolli would dream of a referee employed by the club to explain game situations on a daily basis, or to go over the rules of football, as there has been since this season at Racing Club de Strasbourg (Franck Schneider), “but we obviously don’t have the means” recognizes the Stade Lavallois coach.