PARIS (AP) — French Football Federation president Fernand Duchaussoy has denied he knew about a meeting between France coach Laurent Blanc and other coaches where they discussed quotas restricting black and Arab players in training programs.
Mohamed Belkacemi, a district soccer adviser within the FFF’s technical committee, was present at the meeting last November. He told Infosport television on Wednesday that he recorded it and made FFF officials aware the next day.
Duchaussoy responded in a statement that “at no time was I informed” of the meeting until investigative website Mediapart reported it last Thursday.
Belkacemi said he recorded the meeting because he was aghast at some of the “unspeakable remarks” he was already hearing within the federation.
