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Caretaker French football federation president Fernand Duchaussoy wants to stay in his post on a permanent basis.
Duchaussoy was appointed in July after Jean-Pierre Escalettes handed his resignation following France's World Cup fiasco.
The 67-year-old Duchaussoy told L'Equipe newspaper on Thursday ''it would be good if I am confirmed until 2012.''
Duchaussoy, who says he ''wants a more active, more modern federation and re-establish a certain authority,'' will run for the presidency in the Dec. 18 elections.
At the World Cup, where France lost in the first round, the players refused to train to protest Nicolas Anelka's exclusion from the team, prompting harsh criticism from the public, President Nicolas Sarkozy and others.
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