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French football bosses have been accused of hatching a secret plan to stop non-white players representing the national team.

The French Football Federation (FFF) is launching an investigation into an alleged plan to introduce an 'ethnic quota' following the leak of a tape made by a senior official.

The whistleblowing recording was made by Mohammed Belkacemi, France's technical advisor for district football.

Investigative website Mediapart claims that the scandal implicates high-ranking French officials all the way up to and including national coach Laurent Blanc.

Its report details extracts from a transcript of an FFF meeting last November during which those present discussed setting a cap on players of certain origins.

That quota, designed to restrict the number of dual-nationality players coming through their national training programmes, would have limited 'non-whites' to 30 percent.

The secret plan is causing shockwaves in France and the website concludes that officials think there are "too many blacks and Arabs" in French football.

Click here for more about the investigation into the French Football Federation from Sky News.