After 14 years as head of the LFP, Frédéric Thiriez says stop. The president of the Professional Football League will is explained in an interview to be published in Tuesday’s edition of L’Equipe, whose first excerpts are available on the website of the newspaper.
“ I will not be representing me to the League year-end ,” says Frédéric Thiriez in this interview. “ This will make fourteen. That’s a lot. Fourteen years is enough. That’s enough for the league, no doubt, and also for me. I start with me, because this is a personal decision. it’s been fourteen years since I volunteer president, representing many sacrifices on the professional and personal , “he said, specifying that he” desire (to) focus more on (its) legal practice and (its) other passions, music, theater, writing, mountain … ”
“ As for the League, he needs a generational change, as FIFA, UEFA or the French Federation further notes Frédéric Thiriez, 63. Place the young. A little new blood, it does not hurt the League. And I’m not worried. There will be plenty of quality candidates. ”
Director of the LFP since 1995, he had assumed the presidency in May 2002, succeeding Gerard Bourgoin. In late February, he was chosen to head the World Association of Football Leagues created in December, which means “ the voice of professional football in the proceedings, a voice that is not vindictive but constructive “, he explained in an interview with AFP.
In late December, the UCPF historic union of professional clubs abandoned by Ligue 1 clubs (except Guingamp) who gathered in a new structure, Premier League, requested the resignation of Frédéric Thiriez, saying it had “ failed in its duty by not playing its role as unifier. ”
Instances of French football have had multiple fractures since the summer of 2015, between elite clubs and other professional clubs on the one hand and between the LFP and the French Football Federation. The president of that body, Christmas Graët had so severely tackled Frederic Thiriez in December, ensuring “ 100% of journalists consider Thiriez knows nothing about soccer .” Both instances were against including the question of the number of ascents / descents between the first three divisions record on which the State Council finally agreed with the Federation.
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