France at Euro 2008 - the last word?

by Johnny Summerton | June 24, 2008 at 06:21 am | 382 views | 7 comments

Still licking their wounds after an untimely early exit from Euro 2008, the French are able to look at the team's poor performance with a certain amount of humour.

This link will take you to the last in a series of videos doing the buzz on the Net here in France. They chronicle the highly public falling out between the team manager Raymond Domenech and former international David Trezeguet, and finish with Domenech's proposal of marriage to Estelle Denis on national TV.

Very funny, but you need to be able to understand French.

It helps if you speak or understand French to really appreciate the sentiment behind this video.

It's the last in a series produced by "Daniel Trezeguet" and follows the non-exploits of the French soccer team at Euro 2008 - three games, one goal and one point before being eliminated in the group stages.

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Rob Walker

at 07:48 on June 24th, 2008

good stuff:

Johnny Summerton, I like this story. It's good stuff.

chkuo777

at 11:47 on June 24th, 2008

Holland vs France at Bern. Go Holland!!

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Johnny Summerton

at 12:01 on June 24th, 2008

Thanks for posting the pictures. Interestingly enough nobody seems to have added anything from France's opening goalless snore-draw (sic) against Romania. I wonder why.

Luiz Castro

at 14:12 on June 24th, 2008

good stuff:

Johnny Summerton, I like this story. It's good stuff.

I have to say that: Looks like the French make themselves really good when playing against Brazil only.

LOL

yuls.source

at 19:37 on June 24th, 2008

French lacked a front man, the so-called "dispatcher", like Zinadine Zidane this time around. And, that it why their performance was all but lackluster.

sdallain

at 08:31 on June 25th, 2008

Orange tsunami
Sitting in the stadium of Bern during the game France vs. Holland was quite an experience. Was it because there were 27,000 overwhelming and friendly Dutch supporters (We were 3000 French) singing in French "Allez les bleus, à la maison" (Go France, go home)? Or was it because the Dutch team crushed and crashed France 4 to 1? That I still don't know. But what I know is that I really had a great time despite the final score.

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Miz J.

at 09:40 on June 27th, 2008

I wasn't there - this is my vision of soccer these days, a bunch of angry guys surrounded by advertising. I love soccer, especially World and Euro cups, but this is getting out of control, and it looks like money is and will remain the winner here, despite violence and racism in stadiums. Sad, sad, sad.

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