New settling of scores in the mysteries of the French Football Federation, with an agent who points the finger at the behavior of Philippe Diallo.
New president of the French Football Federation after having occupied this interim position at the heart of the storm which affected Noël Le Graët, Philippe Diallo is singled out by Sonia Souid, this Friday in Le Parisien. The Ile-de-France daily gives the floor to the players’ agent who, two years ago, denounced the sexist and inappropriate behavior of the Breton leader, revealing voice messages and SMS messages in support. During a professional meeting, Le Graët had, according to her, behaved inappropriately, and these accusations in addition to many other concerns ended up causing the sidelining of the man who was president of the FFF.
Tense exchange with Diallo and Balèze security guard
But on the sidelines of the presentation of her book “Touche pas à mon IQ”, where the 39-year-old agent returns to the difficulties of being a woman in the world of football, Sonia Souid confided in a heated confrontation with Philippe Diallo, which took place in the summer of 2023 during the World Cup in Australia. Invited to an official dinner by the players of the French team since she was their representative, the agent was dismissed by Diallo as she tells it.
« We organized a guard of honor to welcome them and Philippe Diallo, who was at that time interim president of the Federation, called out to me and said: “Sonia, can I speak to you? “I naively thought he wanted to introduce himself but he then told me very curtly that my presence was not desired.”delivered Sonia Souid, before revealing the more muscular turn of the rest of the conversation.
-« I felt like I was experiencing a terrible injustice, so I asked him why. He said to me: “You realize, after everything that happened…” I told him that my presence was more than legitimate and that he should rather thank me, because it is thanks to that in particular that he was the new president of the federation. He was so embarrassed that I answered that he asked me to follow him into 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 disrespect me. » He left and asked the big security guard in front of me to push me back into the elevator. That’s what he did, suddenly “, recounted the agent in this confidence which says a lot about her still very complicated relations with the world of football.
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