I’ve found one source for viewing the Slovakia-France game tomorrow, and that’s JumpTV. Alas, no, it’s not free, but in my opinion the prices are reasonable. $6.95 to watch one game live (and for the next 24 hours), or $2.95 to watch one game deferred, starting at about an hour after the final [...]

Lilian Thuram, Willam Gallas and Julien Escudé have all been declared forfaitsfor this week’s A and A’ games against Slovakia. Escude, according to one website, est touché à l’aine. Which translates literally to “is touched to the groin.” Heehee.
Oops. Sorry. This is serious. Get well before September, [...]

So what’s with the dual birthdays? First Zidane and Vieira sharing the big day, and now Julien Escudé and Thierry Henry? Do you think that once Raymond runs a horoscope, he doesn’t want to pay to do it twice? Perhaps the moral of this story is, if you want to play on [...]

How much do I love having both an A and an A’ team called up at the same time? (And can somebody French tell me how you say A’ en français?)
Absolutely the best part of having an A’ team is that everybody you want to see called up IS called up! [...]

The list for the Slovakia-France friendly will be released on Thursday, August 16. Who are we expecting to be on it?
I think I join a lot of other people in wishing for an Italian-centered list that includes players like Roma’s Philippe Mexès , Fiorentina’s Sébastien Frey and, yes, Juventus’s David Trezeguet. This is [...]

I can’t decide what I think about this. On the one hand, Italy certainly has opened itself up to charges like this by past corruption, and by not cracking down fully on acts that shouldn’t be tolerated. (Does anybody really believe that all of the guilty teams were punished in the [...]

No, I have not forgotten this blog! Sorry for my silence lately — busy, out of town, distracted, etc. I will try not to let it happen again. It’s easy to let French soccer slip my mind during the off-season, (especially since I write an MLS blog and they’re at a very [...]