The investigative news site Mediapart has published minutes of a meeting in which senior football figures clearly discussed the issue of ethnic quotas. At one point, the technical director Francois Blaquart says there should be an unofficial policy of keeping down the number of dual nationality, i.e. mainly black and North African, youngsters in French training centres. But defenders of French football's managing body say that the issue under discussion was the high number of players going through the excellent French national training system who defect to other national teams, many in Africa, at senior level.
法国调查类新闻网站Mediapart公布了几分钟的会议过程,在会议上,足协高级官员清楚地讨论了种族配额问题。曾经一度,足协技术总监弗朗索瓦?布拉夸尔特(Francois Blaquart)表示,应该出台非官方的政策,限制法国培训中心的双重国籍队员人数,即主要是黑人和来自北非的青少年。但是,法国足球的管理机构辩护律师称,当前正在讨论的问题是法国培训的许多非常优秀的球员都转入了其他国家的足球队,而其中许多是非洲的资深球员。
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