Cyril Linette is excluded from the race for the presidency of the Professional Football League and denounces “a sabotage between friends”

Among the main competitors to the outgoing president Vincent Labrune for the head of the Professional Football League (LFP), Cyril Linette must finally throw in the towel, despite himself. The former sports director of Canal + did not receive the sponsorship of the Union des acteurs du football (UAF), the union of players, coaches, referees, administrative staff and doctors of French football, on Friday August 30, as he declared on his X account. This sponsorship, the second after the one obtained Thursday thanks to the union of Foot Unis clubs, was necessary to be among the candidates for the presidency of the LFP.

A result strongly criticized by the 53-year-old leader.With this decision, the ‘families’ are depriving French football, which is in the midst of a crisis, of the necessary debate on its future. They open the way to an election to the LFP without opposition, in contradiction with the vote of the club presidents yesterday.“The former general director of L’Equipe called for not”not to allow this sabotage between friends to happen which puts the interests of a small number above the general interest of French football“.

Cyril Linette was one of the four candidates who obtained the support of the club union for the presidency of the LFP with the current occupant of the post Vincent Labrune, contested in particular by certain club presidents for his management of the TV rights of the French championship, but also the deputy of Yvelines Karl Olive and Gervais Martel. According to information from France info, the president of Lens did not receive any sponsorship either, leaving the way open for a re-election of Vincent Labrune, the former director of Canal + being interested in the direction of the French Football Federation.