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A racism is rocking French football after reports emerged of limits on -white players. French media has reported that several figures in the French Football Federation (FFF) approved proposals to the number of players in the national team to 30 per cent. Some sources say the racial quotas deeper and that authorities want youth academies to limits on the number of children they sign up of North African and Middle Eastern descent. France’s government has suspended François Blaquart, the FFF national technical director, "pending the conclusions of an ”. Reports are that the French team coach and national player Laurent Blanc approved the proposals.

Laurent Blanc apologized on Saturday, saying his were taken out of context. "I admit that certain terms, used a work meeting on a sensitive and wide-ranging subject, could be interpreted ambiguously if removed from their and if I anyone's feelings, I apologize," he said. He claims of racism, saying: "To be suspected of racism or xenophobia when I'm all forms of discrimination, I cannot ." Blanc played in the French team that won the 1998 World Cup. He has often raised the of dual nationality players playing in the national team, especially as many players in the youth team and then choose to represent their country of descent at national .