I don’t know why I’m surprised by these Raymond Domenech decisions anymore.
Actually, come to think of it, I’m not surprised by these Raymond Domenech decisions anymore.
Raymond lost a DM, a center/leftback, and a rightback this week to injury — Lassana Diarra, Julien Escudé and Bakary Sagna.
So who does he call up? You’ll [...]

For anybody interested, Zidane and Friends will meet Ronaldo and Friends in a charity match tomorrow, Monday, Nov. 17. Game to be played in Morocco. If you’re in the US, it will be broadcast on Fox Soccer Channel at 1:00 Eastern. If you’re not in the US, leave game-watching info in the [...]

My plan for this post was to give you videos to ask you want you think of PSG’s discovery, Guillaume Hoarau, who scored two goals today. (One was a penalty, the other a header.) He’s PSG’s top scorer this season. I think I read they paid either 500K or 800K Euros for [...]

Reader Doumé left this comment in a previous post:
Laurie,
Speaking of Nico’s double, I couldn’t find the goals anywhere, it seems Youtube and Dailymotion forbid highlights. Every time I click on something, it’s a still picture with a crappy link - sometimes to a porn site, but I didn’t think Anelka did that kind [...]

First off, my pet peeve. Why the hell is Patrick Vieira on the list? You know he’s just going to get injured before the game, and even if he doesn’t, he’ll be injured in 2010. So why are we not seeing somebody like Mathieu Flamini, or (maybe Abou Diaby) instead? (Sorry, [...]

There was some talk after the Tunisia game about Gourcuff’s attempts — not always successful — to utilize Zidane-like footwork so he could really claim the role of “New Zidane” for himself.
Perhaps practice makes perfect? Because on Saturday against Toulouse he made it work. Said Yoann:
“When the ball arrived at my [...]

If past performance is an indicator of future results, then the decision by the French Football Federation (FFF) to keep Raymond Domenech as the manager of France’s National Football team is cause for concern.

Group 7
Played
Points

Serbia
4
9

Lithuania
4
9

Austria
4
4

France
3
4

Romania
3
4

Faroe Islands
4
1

Domenech is getting some things right, such as playing Henry, Gourcuff, and Ribery as attackers, and featuring Toulalan in midfield; [...]

First goal. Is it possible for a defender to screw up any worse than this? I don’t think so. And why the heck didn’t Mandanda stop it? (My co-blogger Chris and I were discussing the team the other day, and I said that we needed to replace the central defenders [...]

I almost missed this game! In my mind it was tomorrow with the WC qualifiers. Thank you, thank you, thank you to Jean Pierre for leaving the comment about the “game tonight.” As it was, I only missed 25 mintues.
Good stream is here. In Arabic. http://iraqgoals.com/en/ch2.html Or it was [...]

A central defense of Eric Abidal and Jean-Alain Boumsong: what could go wrong?
The opening goal that France conceded to Romania was a disaster. France looked like trainees who had no idea what they were doing. They just watched while Romania scored.
The second Romania goal was a header from a corner, and France were [...]