FFF: "I fear that Noël Le Graët will cling to his post" (P. Anton, National Ethics Council)

"I wonder if Noël Le Graët is still lucid enough to take a decision in a totally rational way. I believe that he is still in denial and that he does not want to acknowledge the faults he has committed. If there is no longer this lucidity, which I believe there is, I fear that he will still cling to his post," said Patrick Anton, president of the French Football Federation's National Ethics Council (CNE), on RMC Sport on 01/02/2023.

"Legally (except in the case of the convening of an exceptional federal assembly), nobody can remove him. The problem is now to know how long he will stay, and that, nobody knows for the moment," said Anton the day after the three inspectors of the IGÉSR handed over their provisional report on the "control of the FFF's management and compliance with its obligations" to Philippe Diallo, interim president of the FFF, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, French Minister for Sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Noël Le Graët, who withdrew from his duties as president of the Federation on 11/01/2023 and Florence Hardouin, general manager, who was suspended on the same…