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king-ribery.jpg King Franck?

I don’t know the story behind this photo, but it’s apparently part of some ad campaign. Babelfish translates this as: Bavaria Again Has a King.

Giggle.

Update: My brother-in-blog Jan over at Bundesliga Offside has the full story here.


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  • http://lyon.theoffside.com Inara

    Jan at the Bundesliga offside actually wrote about that, and Massaer posted about it too a few days ago.

    http://bundesliga.theoffside.com/bundesliga/bayern-munich/king-ribery-and-kaiser-franck.html

    It’s a damn cool poster. It almost makes me like Nike.

  • doumé

    If you speak French this is a piece about his star status in Munich as he discovers the big Kaiser poster (at 5:10, right after Thierry Henry’s remarks), and some funny interaction with the fans and other players like Toni etc. Domenech is also commenting on how he didn’t know Franck was willing to shoot penalty kicks.
    http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/ribery+munich/video/x2sgp9_riberytelefoot190807_sport

  • Laurie

    Inara, I’ve updated the post to link to Jan’s explanation. Thanks!

    Doumé, I started to watch the video but got hung up on the fact that Domenech actually looks pretty good in jeans. I’m feeling a little queasy now and think I need to go lie down. Perhaps I’ll try again tomorrow. ;-)

  • doumé

    Laurie,
    Whaaa-ha-ha!
    You’ll have to get over it! I promise it’s worth it! :)

    And, what the heck, why not check the Zidane piece next to it, it’s quite well done, just very nice. Look at the moment he leaves the pitch in his last game and the kids scream “Papa” from the stands in the middle of thousands of fans.

  • http://lyon.theoffside.com Inara

    You know, when Domenech was a player back in the day, his nickname was “leg breaker.” He was a known as a tough tackling defender, and when he played for Lyon, during derbies, he used to warm up near where the St. Etienne fans were sitting, so that he could be motivated by their hatred. Nowadays he’s dressed in fancy suits with perfectly coiffed curly hair, but inside his heart is still beating like a wild footballer.

    What a lot of people don’t realize about Domenech is that his favorite hobby besides astrology is acting, and I wish fans of opposition teams would take his remarks with the appropriate distance. He loves messing with our nerves and gets a kick out of seeing people fall for his tricks over and over again. Despite the derision he gets from the media, disharmony within the EDF is at an all time low (except for the people who aren’t on the team), and much of that can be attributed to the fact that Domenech takes all the headlines for himself, which protects his players. And don’t think the players themselves don’t get a laugh out of what he says as well.

    Believe it or not, the player he most resembles is Gattuso!

    So I’m with you Laurie. Domenech is kind of attractive in a weird, you can’t help yourself but you wish you didn’t sort of way.

  • http://www.worldcupblog.org/daily-dose/daily-dose-120707.html Daily Dose 12.07.07 – World Cup Blog

    [...] Franck Ribery, King of Bavaria (France Blog) [...]

  • sandrahn

    Inara, that’s a fantastic post about Domenech. AND I WANT THAT POSTER!!!

  • Laurie

    doumé, I was joking. Kind of. Well, not about the jeans part. Or the queasy part. But I did watch the video. :-) Excellent and interesting. It’s always fun to get a glimpse of their lives off-field.

    I have a hard time understanding Franck. Is it an accent, or does he just mumble. (I could never understand a word Zidane said either, at least not on first viewing, but I always assumed it was the Marseille accent.)

  • doumé

    Laurie,
    Yes, he has a very heavy Northern accent, for sure. And he mumbles too! Plus he used a lot of slang(at 4.15, he says “I have my head in my a** this morning!”)
    And yes, ZZ has a pretty strong Marseille accent, also he is a very soft talker.

    Towards the end, Domenech and the TV guy marvel at Ribéry’s simplicity and how he is able to bring freshness, humor and natural to people around him – and I agree that they really seem to like him a lot, all of them (Toni, Podolski, etc). I’m sure that contributes to making a good group in the NT, as Inara says, where there isn’t much conflict. I think he has that talent of making big stars go back to being street kids.

  • GQ

    Spell overated

    R I B E R Y

    also great pictute of ribery is a oxymoron

  • Jean-Michel

    try spelling “picture” next…

  • GQ

    Picture….now other than a spelling error everything else ok? john mike?

  • http://www.franck-ribery.org Ribery

    Great picture :-)

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