French Football Federation (FFF) president Jean-Pierre Escalettes has resigned over the national team’s disappointing campaign at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
FIFA said that any interference of government to the FFF, might put France in real consequences, "If France were suspended, the country would be banned from international tournaments and French clubs could not take part in European competitions. "
But French government wants to question Raymond Domenech, and does not see that as an interefernce to the game. Also, Nicolas Sarkozy said in a statement last week that the government wants to review how the country’s sports federations are managed.
"There is no interference,” Luc Chatel, the government’s spokesman, said at a press conference. “It is the role of the state to think through, with the federation, a problem that goes beyond simple sport. The French team represents the country, not just the federation.”
FIFA might not agree totally.
Honestly, I don't think that FIFA will put FFF on hold and suspend the national team and the clubs from the competitions. But, this put the whole French football into a big real crisis.
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