The president of the French Football Federation (FFF) Fernand Duchaussoy has denied having any knowledge of a meeting where France coaches discussed quotas restricting African players in their youth training programs. French media outlet Mediapart reported this week that national coach Laurent Blanc and other coaches discussed the quotas at a meeting last November. The FFF’s National Technical Board, including Blanc, secretly approved a quota selection process to restrict the number of young African and North-African players in youth training centres to 30 per cent, reducing the number of African candidates for the national team. Mohamed Belkacemi, a district football adviser within the FFF’s technical committee, was present at the meeting and has revealed he recorded the conversation and informed FFF officials. Belkacemi said he recorded the meeting because he was stunned at some of the “unspeakable remarks” he was already hearing within the federation. “What I had to say I (already) said eye-to-eye to the people concerned … I’ve been working for 20 years with kids in the inner-cities,” Belkacemi told Infosport. The Clairefontaine training camp, one of the centres made aware of the quota system, once coached France stars Thierry Henry, Nicolas Anelka, Louis Saha and William Gallas, all of whom are of African decent. The FFF have denied any knowledge of the discussion and has promised an investigation. The scandal has re-opened the racism debate in French football, with …
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