Football: “As if I were an insect to crush in front of him!” A player of players tells a violent hook with the president of the FFF

His testimony had experienced a very strong echo, while Christmas Le Graët was at most bad. January 2023, the one who is still for a few weeks president of the French Football Federation is the target of many criticisms and accusations, some of which are very serious. Breton, then 81, is suspected of attitudes and inappropriate words to certain women.

It is then that the playful agent Sonia Souid, one of the very few women to exercise the profession of professional players agent, will deliver an overwhelming testimony denouncing the misplaced behavior of Christmas Le Graët during a work meeting. She explains that she found the octogenarian, who was waiting for her with champagne, and who would have made her understand that he could more easily help him if they were “closer”. “My president, forgive me for the expression, only saw me like two breasts and one ass,” she said.

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A few weeks later, Noël Le Graët resigned. But the episode described by Sonia Souid left traces according to the young woman, and would have even led to a hanging with Philippe Diallo, who had then succeeded Le Graët at the head of the FFF, and who still directs the instance today 'Hui.

According to Sonia Souid, the altercation occurred in Australia in the summer of 2023 during the Women's Football World Cup. One evening, the agent (who represents several blue players), is invited to a dinner at the hotel of the French team. A presence which, according to the young woman, was not desired by Philippe Diallo. “He then tells me very dryly that my presence is not desired. He behaves as if I was an insect to crush before him” she delivers to our colleagues from the Parisian-today in France.

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“I had my little girl in my arms,” ​​she continues, “I first had trouble speaking but I felt like I live a terrible injustice, so I asked her why. said: 'You realize, after all that happened with the Federation and Christmas Le Graët.' I told him that my presence was more than legitimate since I represented several French internationals and that he should rather thank me, because it was notably thanks to this that he was the new president of the federation. That I answer that he asked me to follow him in the elevator where he said to me in a very firm tone: 'This is the last time you speak to me in this tone.' I replied: 'This is the last time you lack respect.' He left and asked the Vigil Balèze in front of me to repel me in the elevator.

Contacted by our colleagues, the FFF did not wish to react to the words of Sonia Souid.