To get ready for the Euros, les Bleus will now be playing three games in France in late May and early June against South American teams.
(Please, please, please do not let anybody get injured.)
Tuesday, May 27
Friendly
France-Ecuador at Grenoble, Stade des Alpes
Saturday, May 31
Friendly
France-Paraguay at Stadium de Toulouse
Tuesday, June 3
Friendly
France-Colombia at Stade de France

Djibril Cisse has scored five goals in two games, moving himself up to sixth among Ligue 1’s top scorers after a miserable start to the season.
Nicolas Anelka just switched teams, and notched his first goal for Chelsea today. (Here’s the goal. Watch quickly, becuase these things never stay up for much more [...]

Three thoughts after watching this video:
1) This really was a brilliant, high-energy game that would have been lovely to watch if I were a neutral. Too bad I’m not a neutral.
2) This defensive lineup might work with Coupet. It doesn’t work with Landreau. Where, oh where is Philippe [...]

Lord, what a frustrating game. Watching it was like driving a Porsche that’s in desperate need of a tuneup. You know what it CAN do, but making it do it is another story.
We should have expected this, though. Domenech fielded a relatively young and inexperienced team that hasn’t played much [...]

If you’re watching the game, leave thoughts here. Score is currently 1-1 and our defense is sucking eggs.

L’Equipe is saying that Jérémy Toulalan may play tomorrow. Oy. Look at this picture from the fff site. Does this look like a healthy player?
In good news, our Barcelona boys have arrived at Clairefontaine and all seem to be healthy and uninjured. Thierry Henry played the match on [...]

I have to dress up and go to a stupid charity dinner, so I don’t even have time to format this properly, let alone write a real post. But here’s the list of selected players. The only real surprise I saw on first read-through was that Alou Diarra is back. And no [...]

You know how much I look forward to list days? More than game days. That’s how much. Games days are stressful. List days are just fun. We get a time to rejoice and a time to moan and a time to complain about Raymond Domenech. (To everything there is [...]

How did it slip my notice that France was playing Morocco on November 16? Oops.
The fff recently announced some friendlies for 2008, so I figured this would be a good time to bring you up to date on upcoming fixtures.
Friday 16 november 2007
Friendly at the Stade de France
France-Morocco (21h00) [...]