"I'm not interested in playing matches behind closed doors like the Germans" (N. Le Graët, FFF)

"Anyone can say today that we could have played (to finish the season in France), with games behind closed doors like the Germans? I'm not interested. We will be ready to start the (2020-21) season well, and this was the wiser decision," stated Noël Le Graët, president of the FFF, to the French media outlet Le Figaro on 10/06/2020.

"We had to respect the decisions of the (French) Prime Minister (Édouard Philippe). The governments decide, this is enshrined in the UEFA regulations. (For the LFP to resume) it would have been as if the government had forbidden restaurants to open, and the restaurateurs would have retorted: 'We open anyway.' We applied what seemed to me logical actions in relation to the State and the opinion of the medical scientists," added the president of the French Football Federation, the day after the decision of the French Council of State to validate the end of the championships voted by the LFP on 40/04/2020.

"I liked it (having the meeting), as there is no reason to have lively discussions, especially from the moment when, with the government, they had…