C A R E E R   H I G H L I G H T S

• Served as a member of the director committee for the Algerian Football League 1955-62
• Member and then secretary of the Central Committee of the French Cup 1963-68
• General Secretary of the French Football Federation (FFF) 1969-72
• President of the France Football Federation 1973-84 (Will be named honorary president of FFF in 1999)
• Also served as a VP of the French National Committee for Olympics and Sport (CNOSF) 1982-94
• Member of European Championship Committee from 75-84, serving as president during French team’s championship in 1984
• 1989-92 Co-President of the successful candidature committee for World Cup 1998
• 1992 Named Co-President of France 98 Organizing Committee (CFO) alongside Michel Platini, an inaugural member of the Hall of Champions
• On the eve of the World Cup which he was instrumental in acquiring and organizing, Fernand Sastre passed away due to cancer at the age of 74 in June 1998

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