So where were you one year ago today?
Yes, it was a year ago. The World Cup final. We were all watching as the game played itself out, with all the drama and trauma and excitement and violence that the promoters had hoped for/feared.
I was down in Oregon for [...]

Hurray! At last! An excuse to post this Cantona picture. (I love Eric Cantona.)
An interview in Australian Four-Four-Two with M. Cantona showed up on my screen this morning where he discusses the World Cup loss to Italy. His conclusion was that this loss had nothing to do [...]

There is American English, and there is British English. Don’t confuse them. I made the huge mistake of reading this article with my mind set firmly in American English mode, including the following sentence:
“Zidane…was caught on camera having a crafty fag before the World Cup semi-final against Portugal last summer.”
Giggle.
I [...]

A couple of people have asked me for some translations to the video, Rendez-Vous le 9 Juillet or a subtitled version. I think the subtitled version is a great idea, and I’ll keep my eye out, but I don’t hold out much hope — there’s just not the audience. (What’s wrong [...]

I have to say I haven’t watched more than the first couple of minutes of this yet, because I wanted to get it posted. I can’t imagine it being allowed to stay up forever.
It’s apparently the full-length Canal+ show,Rendez-Vous le 9 juillet. It’s an hour and a half long, but if you [...]

What?
A Zidane Video.
Why?
Because I can.
I’ve seen a couple of Zidane videos in my time. Okay, maybe more than a couple. This is my favorite. I’m posting this as my last France World Cup Blogger act of 2006. Here’s to more great French football in ‘07!

I realized that most English-speaking viewers probably haven’t seen this interview, so I tracked down a subtitled version. (How much do I love YouTube?)
This is the Canal+ interview. I wish I could show the one that appeared on TF1, because that one’s a lot more interesting. (The interviewer [...]

To look back on the year, I’ve found a fun little video that shows all of the goals France scored in World Cup, as well as clips from the ceremony in Paris honoring the players. (If you don’t speak French, the subtitles at the end basically say, “Where’s Zizou?” Etc.)

Okay, so yes, Thierry Henry should probably have been on the podium as a FIFA Player of the Year finalist instead of Zidane. But if that had been the case, we never would have been able obtain a definitive answer to the question that so many of us have been pondering for so [...]

AP Sports just printed an article saying how Zidane’s headbutt “sullied the image of the game when it needed a lift and should have been celebrating its biggest occasion.”
Uhh…right.
The rest of the article goes on to say how much soccer sucked this year, trotting out the usual suspects: Italy’s match-fixing scandal, the [...]