Noël Le Graët: “Imbued with himself”, “paternalistic”… the dark portrait of those who met him

June 2011, December 2012, March 2017 and finally March 2021: on four occasions, Noël Le Graët will therefore have won the votes in the elections for the presidency of the French Football Federation (FFF). He who won his fight against cancer of the digestive tract in the early 2000s and who revealed, in April 2018, to suffer from lymphoid leukemia, a disease against which he fights regularly, and which he hates to talk about, is today, at 81, at the heart of a new controversy.