"I do not ask to be believed the whole time, I was not right all the time, but in any case I have a course of action," confided on Tuesday AFP Breton, who will be 75 on 25 December (hence its name).
"From the moment he has a conviction, he leads the way. He is stubborn but not obtuse," advance Aime Dagorn, his old companions in the Ahead Guingamp, the club of his life, he has made professional and he was twice president (1972-1991 and 2002-2011).
If the new application was an open secret before its official announcement Friday was due to the circumstances, since he made the space around him, not secrets. "I think even his wife did not know if he will stand or not," advanced earlier in the week near the one we affectionately called "RAB" ( "nothing to shake") in the corridors of the Federal seat , boulevard de Grenelle, for its ability to remain waterproof.
Just Graet consent he entrust Tuesday AFP he still feels "young" when he said in May 2014 will "make way for younger" ...
"Defense of the minority"
It only really fell once, and under the weight of public opinion about Karim Benzema, a player indicted in the affair of blackmail sex tape (for Mathieu Valbuena) but still stubbornly supports. To the point of the "two rascals" on the same plane.
A heart-cons, it will finally in April Benzema player "non-selectable" for Euro-2016 on behalf of "the interests of the team" and "the preservation of the group."
The man in the small provincial notary figure, who learned pragmatism during his years as mayor of Guingamp (PS, 1995-2008), has conferred with Didier Deschamps, coach.
NLG-DD is a wily pair and grip: one holds the Federation, the other the Blues, and nothing beyond. "This is a duo that works well, there is a relationship of trust," emphasized Deschamps Thursday.
Graet like players and "the defense of the minority." This goes back to childhood. Born in Bourbriac (Cotes d'Armor) in 1941, he grew up in poverty. "At 6, there are houses where they would not let me in. We played in the street and at snack time, we did not receive me. Question class. It ate me," telling it to Ouest-France in 2001.
What partly explain his empathy Benzema, an immigrant and a modest background. This former school teacher "his heads, moods, and can be a killer too," illuminates another collaborator.
Thiriez in Turkish head
The darling Benzema and Frederic Thiriez in Turkish head. The latent conflict NLG with the President of the League (LFP), in office from 2002 to April 2016, exploded into the open at a press conference late 2015 when the head of the FFF had dropped that there Thiriez knew "nothing in football."
NLG had been scalded by a tribune of the president of the League in the press advocating firmness for the France team. It does not infringe with impunity on its borders.
His address book is vast. One who "knows" François Hollande received Tuesday during his interview with AFP, a phone call from Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, "a Breton friend."
His uninhibited exercise of power was also made possible by the return of the Federation with a positive balance sheet, thanks to the contract with the supplier Nike (42 million euros a year for the FFF on 2010-2018) he was the great architect as Vice President of the Federation.
Graet, who overcame cancer in the early 2000s, had succeeded in business at the head of a company of frozen meals.
And there is the football, in which he "fell at the age of 7 years old when my father took me to see a game." The combination of his passion for the ball and the power leads him to lead the League (1991-2000), where he created the DNCG, financial policeman of pro football, and win against the odds president of the FFF in 2011 making a relentless campaign to his constituents.
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