2023-11-03 08:22:38
In five years, the federation has lost 4,500 referees at the amateur level. FRANCK FIFE/AFP
Referees beaten up, death threats, cars burned… every week, football referees expose themselves to violent passion, even at the amateur level.
Number one sport in France in the wheel of a French team world champion in 2018, football is the most powerful and imposing sporting discipline in the country. With rights and duties. But also flaws and acts of violence.
The FFF, which today has more than 15,000 active clubs throughout the country (mainland and overseas combined), puts forward the figure of 2.22 million licensees. Obviously, with such a number of players each weekend, and in the current context of violence, racism and homophobia in society, football does not escape the ambient gloom. If everything is not gloomy and to be thrown out to pasture (increase in the number of male and female licensees, in particular), acts of violence exist and echo recent news.
News stories have multiplied in recent months throughout the country, such as last April when a referee from Eure-et-Loir was beaten up – broken elbow and collarbone – and suspended…
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