FFF Audit: Florence Hardwin, General Manager, was relatively spared

Florence Hardwin and her relatives were dreading this moment. On Monday afternoon, January 30, the 56-year-old Director General of the French Football Federation (FFF) received by e-mail a version of the provisional audit report of the General Inspectorate for Education, Sports and Research (IGESR) concerning him. If at this stage we do not know the details of the parts transferred to M^I Hardwin, one can imagine that the person concerned should have been released in view of the content of the 32-page copy sent to the FFF Executive Committee from which. the world received knowledge.

Several times pointed out by the inspection mission carried out by the Minister of Sports, Amelie Odea-Castera, Florence Hardouin, who was appointed director of the FFF in 2013, the auditors relatively insulted its president, Noel Le Graet, tired. for that “ his His behavior towards women, his public statements and the failure of FFF governance”.

Sacked as a precaution by the FFF’s executive committee on January 11, summoned for an interview on February 21 for “serious misconduct” ahead of possible dismissal, Florence Hardwin is certainly being targeted. “displaced authoritarianism”According to the findings of an internal report commissioned by Noël Le Graet in 2020 with the consulting firm Plein sens. But IGESR claims that “If his management can be described as cruel, there is no reason for it to be harassment.” “The general manager’s management clearly calmed down”, Also specify the listeners. Moreover, the inspection mission did not take legal measures against Mr.^I Hardouin, under section 40 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, while he did so for Mr. Le Graet.

likely “forbearance” Regarding IGESR, M^I Hardouin and his decision not to report the director general to the Paris prosecutor’s office shocked several former FFF employees. The latter have very bad memories of M’s driving style.^I Hardwin or assume it has “covered” Mr. Le Graet, despite the many reports he received from his staff about the President’s inappropriate behavior towards them.

Director aside

The trainees draw a portrait of DG who, “Despite significant professional investment, he shows little interest in certain areas of FFF (community service mission specifics, amateur football, training, for example) “. It would be the case for many of the people interviewed “impervious to the singularity of federal government based on respect for the role of elected officials, active volunteers, licensees.” According to the auditors, M^I Hardwin “Struggles to extricate himself from the personality he recognizes as direct.”