Sunday, June 20, 2010

Les Bleus sing the blues

.. in style.
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Arelcao Akleos said...

Betcha Fifa now regreta like heck allowing Henry's goal to fix the match against Ireland.

This meltdown on the French side, it is a subject well beyond Domenech and his relations with a particular player of players. It is a rift in the federation between "Old France" and "New France", and has been developing for at least 10 years. The undercurrents are poisonous, and the chief can't "understand" because the federation has had the same hope as the government itself, that the transition is no more than a change of style and not of substance.
Yeah, right. Troussiet has much better relations once he chose to convert to Islam. Domenech doesn't swing that way. The French have not wanted to face the meaning of this. Now they will have to.

6/20/2010 1:12 PM
Tecumseh said...

Pauv' France. Rather sad, when you think about it.

6/20/2010 4:48 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

From Le Temps:

Tous aimeraient voir Gourcuff reprendre le trône laissé vacant par Zidane. Un leader technique et moral, un type qui saurait rameuter ses troupes, discuter avec Raymond Domenech, remettre à leur place les ego tourmentés. Mais il n’a pas cette moelle. Pas encore, à 23 ans. Même si, à cet âge, Michel Platini avait mis les Bleus au pas, et Zinédine Zidane entamait son règne.

Fils de profs, belle gueule, discours pesé, Gourcuff a tout pour plaire à une certaine France du football, celle des matches de vétérans, les dimanches matin à Yvetot ou Montlouis, juste avant le gigot familial. Et déplaire à ses nombreux collègues issus des cités dites sensibles, où l’on n’aime guère les premiers de la classe.

Il y a des clans, en équipe de France, les Noirs d’origine antillaise, les Noirs d’origine africaine, les Blancs, les musulmans, ceux qui jouent à l’étranger, ceux qui sont restés en France, et on en passe. Le monde du football épouse les contours de la société française, et Gourcuff en est aujourd’hui la victime, trop isolé pour prétendre s’imposer en douceur. Raymond Domenech est fin psychologue. Il le sait, il le sent. Surtout, il n’a plus le temps. Foin de romantisme, tout laisse à penser qu’il va sacrifier Gourcuff sur l’autel du pragmatisme. Pour la philosophie du jeu, on repassera.

6/20/2010 6:09 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Anelka represents the problem much more than Domenech. Or, let's say Anelka represents the active corrosive, and Domenech the ones who were to long blind to the corrosion.

6/20/2010 6:11 PM
Mr roT said...

Anelka represents the problem much more than Domenech. Or, let's say Anelka represents the active corrosive, and Domenech the ones who were to long blind to the corrosion.


Anelka is a douche but so was Zidane and so is Platini. France is a douche. The crap about national unity goes for the US as well, though not in the soccer team because no one cares about it.

6/21/2010 3:33 AM
Mr roT said...

All this came a day after striker Nicolas Anelka was sent home for insulting coach Raymond Domenech at halftime of a 2-0 defeat by Mexico on Thursday in Polokwane that left France on the verge of an embarrassing group stage exit.

Cinco de mayo all over again.

6/21/2010 3:35 AM
Tecumseh said...

Who is then Charles Ferdinand Latrille, Comte de Lorencez? Sounds like a Pepean name to me.

6/21/2010 6:03 AM
Mr roT said...

Where's the "Horum omnium..." label on that comment, Tecs? Pay up.

6/21/2010 7:04 AM
Tecumseh said...

Labels only get attached to postings, not to comments. Pay up, Herr Alz!

6/21/2010 11:52 AM
Mr roT said...

Those that resist innovation get left without a cellphone and nymphets. You pay up.

6/21/2010 12:41 PM

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