Archive for August, 2008
Call Ups for Sweden-France
Les Bleus will be traveling to Sweden for a friendly on August 20th, a game which will hopefully get the team ready for the World Cup qualifiers that will be starting soon.
There a lot of old faces on the squad, but there are also some players missing, including Franck Ribery and Francois Clerc, who [...]
Au Revoir, Lilian (OR: Why I’ll Always Love Thuram)
There’s a fair amount of France news, but I’m finding that I can’t focus on anything else until I do a tribute to one of my all-time favorite players (probably second only to Zizou), Lilian Thuram.
As you probably know by now, Thuram officially retired a little over a week ago because of that [...]
Our Nico Scores Four Goals! In One Game!
I’m not sure what language this video is in. Arabic, maybe? Whatever it is, they seem to be saying that what our Nicolas Anelka did for Chelsea yesterday against AC Milan is called a “Super-Hat-Trick.”
Is that what you call it when one person scores four goals in one game? (The [...]

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