David Trezeguet Retires From International Football

Deschamps for FFF, and bring back T-Rez.

Juventus > Lyon for the French National Team.

I hate Domenech.

Poor Trezeguet. Lets just hope Mexes isn’t forced into a similar decision. Surely Domenech will have to let him back into the team.

As everybody else, I’m only half-surprised. The reasons he mentions are strange to me, though.
Domenech keeping his job, well it’s obvious. We know.
But the other reason, “the disastrous Euro” (”awful Euro” depending on the translation), really puzzles me. Does he think he’s too good for the team now?

Great, stylish player who scored some important goals, he will be remembered for the one that originated the joke at Euro 2000 (”How do you put the cork back in a champagne bottle?”"I dunno, ask the Italians”)

no more titi-trezegol partnership, i have to say it’s the an end of an era for french football.
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Great news for Juve. Now Trez can dedicate all his time and energies to his club without worrying about whether or not Domenech is gonna call him up.

Why can’t Domenech be like Trez and retire.

This is truly an end of an era for France, the Trez-Henry one-two. Here’s a great video interviewing them both:

Freres de buts- http://youtube.com/watch?v=wg5iJ–WTW4

Total sympathy for Trez! And yes, with Domenech as manager, he IS too too damned good for the national team.

everyone remembers euro 2000. In toronto, the italians were already popping their champaign and celebrating in the streets. Thats when trez became an international hero and put the cork back on all the bottles of champaign in little italy.

Hope he scores 30+ goals next season. The national team is led by a coward.

France without Trezeguet is not the same. I hope he’ll come back.

I’m sure if Domenech resigns and someone sensible comes in Trez will be willing to come out of retirement.

I never saw what was so good about Trezeguet anyway. He was utterly helpless against Togo, of all teams, in WC 2006. And don’t forget that he was the man who lost the final for France – he missed the penalty. I still don’t understand why everyone blames Zidane and Materazzi for France’s defeat. It doesn’t matter if you have 10 men or 11 men or 5 men in a penalty shootout – Trezeguet was the one who didn’t score. I think Willy Sagnol is the perfect player. Every time he touches the ball, something good happens. He is way too underrated. Domenech can get rid of Thuram, Makelele, and Malouda, but he better keep Willy Sagnol.

@ Sasha
your no different from most italians/americans, you think you know about football, when you know nothing. i am not even going to argue with you because all you wrote was rubbish. when it comes to football vous avez le cervau dun sandwich au fromage.

LOL Michel-Olivier! le cervau d’un sandwich au fromage carrement! chapeau mec, c’est la premiere fois que j’entend cette expression

sasha my friend next time you watch tv dont watch it upside down, it will only confuse you more………
and as michel oliver said no need arguing with you instead i will pray for you.

As an italian, and also after having the privelege to watch Trezeguet for many years closely , iam really disgusted and sad with this decision of david and i blame and i put the entire blame on the FFF and Domench´s continuity which prompted David to take this unfortunate decision..He is after all only 30, he is still very vital and decisive and is a great talent!!for goodness sake, he is the only specialist poacher in France!!he can score goals out of nothing in a flash!he scores and will score when Henrys and others are clueless!!
This is a great setback to France, as i dont see Benzema, Gomis and others in the same league when it comes to scoring goals and obviously Henry is finished goods!!

Je sais beaucoup au sujet de football. Voila, je ne suis pas un americain stupid. En fait, je ne suis pas americain; je suis russe.

What I say is not rubbish, it is you who say rubbish. You just listen to the media hype over players like Henry and Trezeguet, and you continue to repeat that rubbish. It is sad and pathetic. Since when have Henry and Trezeguet played well for France?? Willy Sagnol has done so much more – so many important crosses, tackles, runs up the sidelines. Just because the media doesn’t talk about a right-back, doesn’t mean he’s no good. In fact, he is good. He’s simply the best. Willy Sagnol and Anyukov from Russia are the two best right backs in the world right now. Haha Zambrotta…

I think you guys are being a bit hard on Sasha. There’s some truth to what he says.

The thing is, Trezeguet is a goal poacher, plain and simple. And a goal poacher is pretty much by definition somewhat limited as a player. (Is anybody going to argue that Pippo Inzaghi is a complete player? No. He scores goals. That’s 98% of what he does.)

That’s not to say that pure goal scorers can’t make a huge difference for their teams. They can and do. But for that to happen a team needs to be built around getting the ball to the goal scorer. Domenech’s teams never were, and so Trezeguet in the Domenech era has never accomplished anything, even when he was called up and given playing time.

The no poacher strategy worked pretty well in WC 2006 with Zidane, worked okay in qualifying, worked miserably in Euros. But a lot of things weren’t working in Euros.

Would the team have done better if it had been built with players whose main job was to get the ball to Trezeguet? We’ll never know. Possibly yes. It certainly works at Juventus, and it’s worked previously on the NT with Trezeguet.

One of the things I was hoping to see with the new coach we all expected was whether Trezeguet could still work with the EdF under a different system. (Because wouldn’t it be fantastic, after these past few years, to have a prolific scorer on the team!!!) That’s one of the reasons I’m sorry Raymond is still around, because now we’ll probably never know.

For me, the jury is still out on what Trezeguet could have offered. I understand where everybody who thinks he’s wonderful is coming from, but I also understand the other side. Thing is, none of us really know, because it didn’t happen.

“Since when have Henry and Trezeguet played well for France??” — the colossal ignorance of this comment beggars belief.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING THE FRENCH NATIONAL TEAM??? Only under Domenech’s management??

I guess that’s the case because your comment is unbelievably ignorant and stupid. Anyone who’s been watching the French national team for YEARS (not just under Domenech, the way you have) know exactly how often Henry and Trez have played very well for France! Check out the stats of these two players on the national team. The people who post on this blog are very knowledgeable about the French national team, they’ve been following it for YEARS, long before Domenech ever came near it.

It’s YOU who are a know-nothing plastic who swallows superficial media coverage since obviously you’ve not been paying attention to the team and its players beyond the shallow, short-lived coverage given to football on US TV.

Its not Trezeguet’s fault that everyone around him sucked on the national team or didn’t play to his strengths as a goal scorer. Yes thats what he is…just give him the ball in the box. It’s not like Zidane never missed a penalty. Whatever though..i’ll just sit back and watch them suck now like I did at the Euro. Some of you must have sandwich au fromage cerveau’s if you think somehow the non selected are to blame for this fuggin guy’s incompetence (domenech). Go ahead and embrace his non firing if you want.

Trez is a striker, we all know that he job is to balls in the net, i dont understand why the way he does it matter, “goal poacher”! who came up with this anyway,i think a goal scorer or how ever you want to call them or Trez in the case should work with any system. at the end of the day, the goal is whats counted i dont think some one should be punished because of their style of scoring.

Not really on the subject at hand, but it’s 10 years ago today…
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x37wop_mondial-98-les-yeux-dans-les-bleus_events
this video serves multiple purposes:

A response to Laurie about catchy little Brazilian tunes (this one weaves its way in and out of the first 6 minutes of this video)
Some footage of Trezeguet being in the team (6:20)
An educational tool in French foul language.
Some funny stuff in the extreme tension: in the lockerroom when Barthez pleas for people to keep cool, and Thuram screams back “But who is losing his cool! Who? Watch it!”. Or on the sideline: “Roger, you are shattering my shoulder!”"Come here, don’t leave me” (Henry and Lemerre). Incidentally, when you see the names of the subs on the sideline, wow what depth.
And in the mess that ensues, I love the scream of the guy (7:25, Leboeuf) who finally realises the magnitude of the thing.

After that, it became different. We came to expect victory.

Happy 10 years, guys! And thanks.

Deschamps = Toulalan/Mavuba
Lizarazu = Clichy
Zidane = Benzema/Nasri
Henry = Obertan/Monnet-Paquet/Mounier/Briand
Petit = Flamini
Trezeguet = Gouffran/Sinama-Pongolle/Higuain(if he change his mind)
Karembeu = Plessis/Bodmer
Dugarry = Menez
Charbonnier = ???
Leboeuf = Mexes
Barthez = Frey
Thuram = ???
Boghossian = Gourcuff/Lemoine/Marveaux
Diomede = ???
Pires = Ben Arfa
Guivarc’h = Gakpe
Desailly = ???
Blanc = Squillaci/Givet
Vieira = Diaby/Faty
Candela = ???
Djorkaeff = ???
Lama = Lloris