Guess where Raymond Domenech will be tomorrow at 1400 hours, Paris time?
He’ll be where all the cool people will be hanging out, at the Adidas Performance Store on the Champs-Elysées, of course. That’s where our Raymond will be announcing The List for France Argentina. (Oh, and how do you say “Adidas Performance Store” [...]

Bleus coach Raymond Domenech doesn’t want to keep us in suspense any longer about who the #1 goalkeeper will be for next week’s France-Argentina friendly.
Despite the fact that goalkeeper coach Bruno Martini was checking out Barthez last weekend, Raymond is going with Grégory Coupet.
Whew! Okay, I can breathe [...]

So how do you get your boss to let you out of your contract?
If you’re Manchester United’s (and sometime Bleus) left-back Patrice Evra, you talk to the prince of course! (Laurie’s mental shift here: Not Prince Beckham. That’s my other blog.)
If you needed more proof that soccer players [...]

It’s always kind of fun to see little guys take on the big guys. Franck Ribery is 5′8″, so I find it truly entertaining every time I see him totally school some of those bigger defenders. He reminds me of the Roadrunner. Seriously. Don’t you expect to hear a [...]

Raymond Domenech announces his selections this Friday for the France-Argentina game on Feb. 7, so this is the week when the rumors start to fly.
Fabien Barthez performed this weekend under the watchful eyes of Bruno Martini, the keeper coach for Les Bleus. Nantes lost this weekend for the first time [...]

Come on, ladies, admit it. You’ve wanted to own a piece of these guys for a long time, haven’t you??
Well, now’s your chance. Everybody, call your broker! It looks like we will soon see the day — probably early next month — when Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon) becomes a publicly [...]

Raymond Domenech will announce his call-ups for the February 7 France-Argentina friendly next Thursday, February 1. But a few of our regulars (and favorite non-regulars) probably won’t be there. We’ve had WAY too many out with injuries lately. So what’s their status at the moment?
The nineteen-year-old I so totally want [...]

An update on nineteen-year-old French-born Gonzalo Higuain: Despite his claims that “I think myself French,” and Domenech’s attempts to make him French, and his dad’s apparent desire that he be French, Gonzalo has apparently decided that he is, in fact Argentinian. He’s turning his back on Les Bleus and going through [...]

Bleus Coach Raymond Domenech turns 55 today. Here’s a picture of our Raymond with his significant other, Estelle Denis. Who’s something like thirty and a football journalist. And possibly pregnant with their second child. (And this is a completely and totally unsubstantiated rumor from a French footballing blog, so don’t repeat [...]

I borrowed this clip from my brother-in-blog Nick at Manchester United Offside because I love the Patrick Vieira brawl that happens at about a minute in.
Anybody else who really, really thinks Patrick should still be at Arsenal?