It was not a great day for French teams in the Champions League. Marseille lost to Liverpool 2-1 after taking an early lead, and Bordeaux got decimated by Chelsea, 4-0. (And it could have been worse.)
The only bright side? Florent Malouda and Nicolas Anelka both scored for Chelsea.
First it [...]

It seems that David Trezeguet has had enough.
In all honestly, I knew this was bound to happen, but it still makes me sad when a player hangs up his international boots, especially when they are forced into it.
While I freely admit that I don’t think Trezeguet has a place on the team anymore (even [...]

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That’s how many days it’s been since France kicked off their 2006 World Cup campaign with an unimpressive draw against Switzerland. We all remember - quite painfully - how that tournament turned out. And we know now that being in second place is not enough. Les Bleus cheated themselves out of a World Cup victory, [...]

Karim Benzema has been name Ligue 1’s Player of the Year. He was handed the trophy by former top France player Zinedine Zidane. Expressions like “passing the torch” and “handing over the reins” come to mind.
Joking aside; I’d put down even money on Benzema to become the story of the tournament, leading all [...]

I was in the middle of writing an email to Daryl, the editor at World Cup Blog and The Offside, where I was saying, “Chelsea. With the exception of Makelele, it’s where good French players go to get all the life sucked out of them.”
And as I was typing this (with the Newcastle-Chelsea game [...]

This showed up in my inbox today and I found it entertaining.
I’m not even going to pretend it’s about the play. It’s all about the pretty.
(Not that I, myself, notice these things. But you might enjoy them.)
Most of the recent news showing up in my mailbox say [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]