Vincent Labrune re-elected against Cyril Linette at the head of the Professional Football League – Libération

The favourite in a highly criticised election, the current president of the LFP is running for a second term on Tuesday 10 September, against a backdrop of persistent economic difficulties for French clubs.

No surprise. Presumed to be largely favorable to the outgoing president Vincent Labrune, in office since 2020 and the end of the Covid crisis, the vote on Tuesday, September 10, offered the Orléans native a new four-year lease at the head of the Professional Football League (LFP). Without any nuance: fourteen votes for, two against and one abstention. His opponent, Cyril Linette, will not have carried weight. And if his campaign was already raising questions before the election, it was probably not winnable anyway.

On Monday, an informed observer, who has been following Linette and Labrune for twenty years, expressed his surprise to us about the strategy of the newspaper’s former general manager. the team : “In his transmitted program [en fin de semaine dernière] to the voters who are essentially the presidents of the clubs, he had stated that he wanted to be in fact a sort of general director of the LFP rather than a president. However, the current CEO, Arnaud Rouger, is particularly appreciated by the leaders of French football, probably more than Labrune, it being understood also that the two [Rouger et Labrune] make a pair. That’s a mistake.”

Labrune, the candidate of the presidents

To which we can add a strategy of seducing public opinion through a good number of trappings.