FIFPro: "Without an international mandate, I take back my freedom of speech and action" (P. Piat)

"If I leave FIFPro today, I am not abandoning the struggle. But without an international mandate from now on, I will take back my freedom of speech and action and continue to promote my own ideas, which I know are also yours," said Philippe Piat, who will be 80 years old on 18/06/2022 and who is stepping down as president of the global representative organisation of players, on the occasion of the congress held in Paris (FRA) on 16/11/2021.

David Aganzo (ESP), president of the AFE (Asociación de Futbolistas Españoles / Association of Spanish Footballers) has been elected president of FIFPro and will succeed Philippe Piat, who has held the post since 2013, after a first mandate from 2005 to 2007.

"I will remain the person you know, with the difference that, speaking and acting in my own name and no longer in the name of our institution, I am determined to fight the battle head-on and without setting any limits," said Philippe Piat in an address that News Tank Football has published in full below as a tribute to the French trade unionist, who has been at the head of the UNFP - where he…