An Interesting Thierry Henry Interview

March 5th, 2007 | by: Laurie |

Is this the officially designated time of year when French players do English-language articles? Last week Makélélé, today Thierry Henry, and tomorrow a great one from the ever-wonderful Lilian Thuram. Not that I’m complaining, mind.

The Thierry Henry interview from World Soccer

The part I find most interesting in this is when he describes what a perfectionist his father was when he was growing up. “Sometimes I would come off the pitch really happy because I had scored two goals but then I would see him frowning and he would say: ‘Yes, you scored two but you missed the chance to create another one,’ or ‘You gave the ball away and it cost your team a goal.’ ”

It does kind of explain a lot about how he plays now. I wonder if he’ll be the same way with his own children.

He also talks a lot about World Cup, and about the infamous headbutt, speaking about Zizou with a lot of respect — interesting, because I didn’t think they got along all that well. But what do I know?

Enjoy the interview.

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MB

Great Interview…I would really be surprised if he is not at the World Cup in South Africa in 2010. I’m not necessarily saying he will be starting, but I think he will at least be fit and in form enough to at least be on the squad and contribute to the team.

Speaking of Henry “not getting along well with Zizou”, are there any players on this team who have a serious problem with someone else? Any players who can’t get along with each other? I really haven’t heard anything along these lines except that Fabien Barthez and Gregory Coupet really didn’t get along with each other (which was really obvious). Any other locker room feuds?
http://france.worldcupblog.org Laurie

What, MB, you’re encouraging me to GOSSIP?

Oh, all right. Yes, I’ve heard that there are players who don’t get on with one player in particular — our M. Henry. Problem is we don’t know who those players are.

Were you following this blog back in December? An article came out in the Journal du Dimanche where several NT players (and apparently at least one coaching staff member) ripped into Thierry Henry for arrogance, among other things. My favorite quote was that he had a “melon énorme.” I’ve had a lot of fun with that phrase in this blog. Still makes me giggle. First post
Second post
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Several players came to Henry’s defense, among them Vieira, Coupet and Thuram, but other than that everybody has been publicly silent about this ever since. I’ve read a couple of blog postings guessing at names, but nothing I’d consider credible. So your guess is as good as mine. And how I would have LOVED to have been a fly on the wall before France-Argentina when they all came back together again!

If anybody else has seen credible updates to this story, let me know.
sandrahn

I subscribe to WORLD SOCCER – the interview at the link you gave is a shorter version of a longer piece from an issue some months ago. Henry always comes off as pretty intelligent and articulate. Nice change from some of the incoherent dolts like Rooney.