France/FFF: "I am capable of running the Federation during this transitional period" (P. Diallo)

"I am ready to take on the duties that I have been entrusted with. I have been in football for 30 years. I know both the international and national levels, the professional clubs and the French Football Federation, where I have been working for the past two years. I am capable of running the Federation during this transitional period. Beyond the statutes, my colleagues on the executive committee believed, in all modesty, that I am capable of doing so," said Philippe Diallo, deputy vice-president of the FFF, of which he is now interim president and general director following the stepping down of Noël Le Graët and the dismissal of Florence Hardouin (on 11/01/2023), to the French daily L'Equipe on 19/01/2023.

"The FFF executive committee, which met on Thursday 19/01/2023, has noted that the Paris public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation against its president Noël Le Graët (for moral and sexual harassment). Without further information at this stage, and in respect of the presumption of innocence, the executive committee has confirmed that the president will remain…