In January 2023, Noël Le Graët was withdrawn from the presidency of the French Football Federation, following accusations of sexual harassment and authoritarian managerial methods. The following month, he resigned from his post.
His fall was then precipitated by his remarks made on Zinedine Zidane in the program of
Marion Bartoli On RMC. “If Zidane tried to join me?” Certainly not, I wouldn't even have taken it on the phone. To tell him to look for another club? Make him a special program to find a club or a selection. I do nothing to shake, he can go where he wants ”, had dropped the Breton on the antenna, to react to the extension of the contract of Didier Deschamps following the final of the 2022 World Cup.
This Tuesday, the former French football leader returns to this radio crash. “I think I deserved a better outing. I did not have a pot, in addition, because I fell ill in February 2024. I was a little off the race everywhere ”, he entrusted in an interview given to
The team.
Zidane, if it had to be done again …
At the end of the 2026 World Cup, Didier Deschamps will leave his post as a tricolor coach and will most likely be replaced by the 1998 Golden Ballon. “Zidane succeeded with Real. He did things. He has the public and the press with him. It is already an achievement to start well ”, Judge Christmas Le Graët.
“I would have even certainly named it”,
he concludes to answer the question of whether he would have
“Taken on the phone this time”. As a reminder, this is his vice-president
Philippe Diallo Who had assured his interim at the head of the FFF, before being elected a few months later with 91 % of the votes.
