Franck Ribéry has been named UEFA’s Player of the Week for his standout performance in the Champions League in Bayern Munich’s 5-0 victory over Sporting. (And now poor Sporting has to go to Munich for the second leg. Ouch.)
Our Franck got two goals (one a penalty) and two assists in the game. [...]

Thank goodness that was just a friendly.
Short Highlights:

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This lineup is fairly promising:
Anelka
Henry Gourcuff Ribery
Toulalan Diarra
Abidal Gallas Mexes Sagna
Mandanda
Domenech could do a lot worse, and often does. Evra has had some injury problems (ankle); he’d add a little more than Abidal down the left.
A loss at home [...]

UPDATE: If you’re watching the game near your computer, leave comments here.
As Steve pointed out in the comments yesterday, good news for folks in the US! The France-Argentina game will be shown on ESPN2, live. It doesn’t get much better than that. 21h00, which is noon on my West Coast. [...]

There’s a cute slideshow over at the FFF site of the guys engaging in “le footing.” Basically jogging on a trail together, and everybody seems to be having a good time. Or at least they’re smiling pretty for the cameras. Which is good. Right?
(Something interesting: In the first [...]

From Jean Michel in the comments:
The absence of Boumsong is comforting but I’ll bet he’s on the short list of defensive alternates should someone suffer from a last minute injury.
Jean Michel, you must be psychic! Guess who just got called up? Not as a replacement — as a “reinforcement.” Yes, Boumsong. [...]

There are two items of news regarding the list for the Argentina friendly.
1) The FFF has redesigned their site so that the formatting carries over when I hit “copy”! So no more having to insert spaces and line breaks! Yay!
2) Other than a new goalkeeper, Cédric Carrasso from Toulouse, there is [...]

This was one of those achy-breaky moments that we all knew was coming, right?
Willy Sagnol, who was stellar in les Bleus’ WC 2006 run, has retired. And not willingly. He’s leaving the game due to ongoing physical problems, especially an Achilles tendon that should have healed but never did. [...]