If Franck Ribery can reproduce a bit of this Bayern Munich form for France this summer, the Champagne will be flowing.

The Spanish commentary to the first Ribery goal: “Por favor.” Please.
Here’s a link that might work better (that Daily Motion link kept freezing on me) with all 4 of Bayern’s goals from the game.

Here, [...]

I don’t have a lot of time today, but I feel a need to post this just to get that Dhorasoo photo off the top of the page. (Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time.)
Interesting career retrospective of one of our resident old guys, Claude Makélélé, over on the FIFA.com [...]

I was looking for something entirely different when I stumbled on this over at the site AllPSG.com
If you were following the PSG news in late 2006 when Vikash Dhorasoo got the sack from PSG, you might find it humorous also.

It’s been a long time since we’ve done stuff on Willy Sagnol hasn’t it?
Well, technically, it was probably yesterday. But before that it was a long time.
So here’s a Willy Sagnol video. Normally I don’t have the attention span for these kinds of slideshow videos, especially set to the tunes of [...]

First, I want to welcome Inara to the France page. A lot of you probably know Inara as the writer of the wonderful Lyon page over at The Offside. She’s going to be joining Jeff and me in covering the France team as we head into Euros.
Only a month and a [...]

People following football blogs aren’t the sort to let the questionable naming of major competitions be an obstacle to their enjoyment, but it just might help increase interest among Americans if the European Club Cub wasn’t oddly named the Champions League, and if the Euros had a name a bit closer to the “World Cup.” [...]

Thierry Henry hasn’t had a great season this year. Nicolas Anelka hasn’t scored in twelve games.
And today Karim Benzema was carried off the field “clutching his knee.”
Lyon’s Brazil striker, Fred, was out with injury and the problems worsened when top scorer Karim Benzema left the field on a stretcher, clutching his knee, [...]

I wrote up a tribute to Thierry Gilardi over on The Offside’s main page that you might be interested in. He really was irreplaceable, and so much a part of so many France team memories. French TV may fill the job, but they’ll never replace the passion.
The above link is for the English [...]

I’m researching a post for World Cup Blog’s main page on the incomparable announcer Thierry Gilardi, who passed away last month while I was in France. (If you’re a France fan, you know his voice, even if you don’t realize it.)
In the process I thought I’d share with you a couple of [...]

I wrote this up over on the Euro 2008 main page, and then realized that you might enjoy it here too.
For a description of what’s going on, click on the above link.