Frédéric Thiriez, former president of the Professional Football League, believes that the resignation of Noël Le Graët from his post as president of the French Football Federation will not solve “all the problems of the FFF”. The former president of the LFP wants an evolution of the statutes of the Federation.
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After the resignation of Noël Le Graët from the post of president of the French Football Federation, Frédéric Thiriez, former president of the Professional Football League (LFP), estimates this Tuesday on franceinfo that “It is not the departure of a man who will solve all the problems of the Federation”. He assures that the “governance disorders had been known for several years”. And in this context, the former president of the LFP wishes that “this resignation is the first act of a profound overhaul of the system, and not its culmination”.
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Frédéric Thiriez calls for a transformation of the governance of the French Football Federation, whether “with [lui] or another”. However, he hopes that the now acting president of the FFF, Philippe Diallo, “succeed”. “He’s a good boy (…), let’s let him work and let him have a chance”, pleads the former president of the LFP.
Review the federal governance system
For Frédéric Thiriez, the resignation of Noël Le Graët, of course “inevitable”must above all be “an opportunity to fundamentally review the system of federal governance”. “It is urgent that 3F get back on track by focusing on its fundamentals”, he throws. He mentions in particular the case of amateur football, which he considers “struggling in France today”.
Former candidate for the presidency of the FFF in the previous election, Frédéric Thiriez also judges “urgent to review the statutes of the Federation” And “the mode of election of the executive committee”. “I proposed that it be by universal suffrage of the clubs for example”, he explains. Frédéric Thiriez lists other of his proposals aimed at “to have a more democratic, more transparent Federation”, especially the idea of a “Football Parliament to control the executive” and the presence “of a majority and a minority within the Executive Committee”.
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