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Team Focus: Fierce Competition Apparent as France Brush Aside Denmark

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Oct 12 2015 17:05
Team Focus: Fierce Competition Apparent as France Brush Aside Denmark Didier Deschamps came close to his Aimé Jacquet moment but the worst, it appears, has since passed. The run of three defeats in four games that led into the last international window hadn’t put the former Juventus, Monaco and Marseille boss in any serious danger - and he hadn’t ha...
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Player Focus: Diarra's Recent France Outing Marks Impressive Return to the Fore

by Ben McAleer at Friday, Oct 9 2015 15:55
Player Focus: Diarra's Recent France Outing Marks Impressive Return to the Fore Lassana Diarra’s 34th French cap on Thursday night can certainly be considered a return from international wilderness. The midfielder’s start against Armenia was the first time he turned out for France since the October 12th 2010. It was almost five years to the day that Diarra last feat...
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Team Focus: Still Many Questions For Improving France

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Sep 7 2015 11:20
Team Focus: Still Many Questions For Improving France “It’s a style that I don’t have yet.” Didier Deschamps’ words to describe his reasons for calling up Nabil Fekir for the first time, back in March, were unusually imprecise and vague. Fekir tends to have that effect on people. That particular blend of bewitching footwor...
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Match Report: Lacazette Leads Hungry Reserves to Impressive France Win

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Mar 30 2015 14:19
Match Report: Lacazette Leads Hungry Reserves to Impressive France Win It had to happen somewhere, sometime, but here? That Alexandre Lacazette’s first goal for France was scored at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, the home of Lyon’s bitter rivals Saint Etienne (he was accordingly booed when he touched the ball in the early stages of Sunday’s game with De...
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Team Focus: France Flexibility the Key as Les Bleus Look to 2016

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Oct 13 2014 12:19
Team Focus: France Flexibility the Key as Les Bleus Look to 2016 It is beginning to look like a model case study in perfect preparation. France is limbering up for Euro 2016, and things are looking good. If you thought getting set to host a tournament was all about an unseemly last-minute scramble of infrastructure tightening and agonising over selection, think a...
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Player Focus: Mathieu Deserving of a Place in Deschamps' Latest France Squad

by Ben McAleer at Wednesday, Oct 8 2014 17:30
Player Focus: Mathieu Deserving of a Place in Deschamps' Latest France Squad With Barcelona unable to sign players until January 2016 due to an international transfer ban, the Blaugrana invested all the money they could in order to bring in new faces this summer. Luis Suarez, bought for £75m from Liverpool, was naturally the acquisition that grabbed the headlines. Howe...
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Player Focus: Gignac, Lacazette and Ben Yedder give Deschamps an Embarrassment of Riches

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Oct 6 2014 16:57
Player Focus: Gignac, Lacazette and Ben Yedder give Deschamps an Embarrassment of Riches After striking Marseille’s late winner at Caen, André-Pierre Gignac exploded with joy. In the wake of the goal, he celebrated wildly with teammates before approaching Marcelo Bielsa on the touchline. “Un abrazo para El Loco,” (‘a hug for the crazy one’), he insis...
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Team Focus: France Finding the Formula to Forget Ribéry

by Andy Brassell at Monday, Sep 8 2014 16:55
Team Focus: France Finding the Formula to Forget Ribéry The dust is only just settling on the international retirement of Franck Ribéry, and it will continue to wag French tongues for a while yet. “I don’t understand him,” UEFA president Michel Platini told Bild am Sonntag in an interview published this weekend. “He’s...
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Team Focus: Who Are Germany's Main Rivals For Euro 2016?

by Andy Brassell at Tuesday, Jul 15 2014 11:21
Team Focus: Who Are Germany's Main Rivals For Euro 2016? If Germany were fourth favourites for the World Cup behind Brazil, Spain and Argentina at the start of the tournament, then they are unlikely to occupy a similar position in the stakes for Euro 2016 – and not only due to the absence of the South American pair. Joachim Löw had not only the...
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Team Focus: France's Strength in Depth Can Lead Them to Glory

by Ben McAleer at Thursday, Jul 3 2014 16:00
Team Focus: France's Strength in Depth Can Lead Them to Glory A little over 4 years ago, France’s World Cup hopes were left in tatters. The players refused to train after Nicolas Anelka was sent home following a row with head coach Raymond Domench, culminating inLes Bleus crashing out at the group stages of South Africa 2010. In the aftermath of the Worl...
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