How’s your ego feeling now Jean Pierre?
After years of mistakes, coverups and refusing to change a broken system Jean Pierre Escalettes has finally resigned as President of the French Football Federation.  Needless to say- I think this has been a long-time coming – the problems France had at the World Cup were neither sudden [...]

With the events over the past few days, its easy to feel like the Bleus have turned their back on the fans
*Post written to the tune of Everybody Hurts by REM…audio at bottom of post (below the jump)*
Please note: The timeline of events has been updated thanks to additions and clarifications made in the [...]

REMINDER: Liveblog begins 10 min before match is due to start!
Today the Bleus take on Tunisia in their second friendly before the World Cup.  Their first game against Costa Rica was largely a success last week, and the team will be hoping to establish a positive streak of games going into the tournament this summer. [...]

We all know what happened in 2002 when France had a team full of attackers coming into the World Cup in blazing form. They had burned too brightly, and they had burned out. Zizou limped out of training injured, and the side imploded, unceremoniously.
Henry, a red-card villain of 2002, is coming in on [...]

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, [...]

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.” [...]

Julien Pretot wrote a piece yesterday for Reuters about the game. Trezeguet appreciated the applause from the crowd, but Domenech doesn’t pay attention to the crowd.
Gabriele Marcotti has piece on Domenech on SI.com. Journalists sympathetic to Italy, and Gabriele is Italian, tend to strongly dislike Domenech; which is one of the [...]

France’s second-string side went up 3-0 against Mali today in Paris, and held on to win the friendly 3-2.
We had links to highlights in Daily Motion, but they quit working. Here are some pictures from the game.

Clairfontaine must look like a M*A*S*H unit with all the injuries:
1. France’s great hope, Karim Benzema, has an injured left ankle – Replaced by Trezeguet (Trezegol?)
2. Arsenal’s impeccable right back Bacary Sagna – Replaced by Reveillère
3. The World’s best player as recently as 2003, Thierry Henry – Replaced by Loic Remy
4. France Captain Patrick Vieira [...]

The name I see more than any other when I’m searching out stories about L’Equipe de France is Patrick Vignal of Reuters. He has the beat covered, and I thought it would be interesting to see if he would tell us about his work and his thoughts about Les Bleus going into Euro 2008. [...]