Claude Simonet, former president of the FFF, has died at the age of 92

He had been the boss of French football during the 1998 World Cup. Claude Simonet died at the age of 92 on Tuesday March 15, according to our information. Leader for more than thirty years, the latter was president of the French Football Federation from February 1994 to February 2005.

Associated with the Blues’ first World Cup crown, he retired from business at the end of his presidency, which ended in scandal. Accused of having concealed a deficit of around 14 million euros in the accounts of the FFF, he was sentenced in 2007 to six months’ imprisonment with suspended sentence for “falsehood, use of falsehoods and obstruction of the reviewer’s mission”.