Raymond Domenech put an exclamation point of France's disgraceful and utterly miserable world cup campaign. To be honest, I've never ever never seen anything like it sports. Period. The mutiny can be summarized this way: A bunch of troublesome fools out to make a point against an arrogant and pathetic coach. Two wrongs make a wrong here. Even if the players were "right" (and quite frankly what I've read about their treatment of team mate Yohann Gourcuff is all I need to know what type of players these guys are) this was not the way to go about it.
Just when you thought to yourself it couldn't get any worse
You would think the coach would lead by example and preserve French soccer honor and salvage what was left of his self-respect and god dang shake hands with the coach of South Africa Carlos Parreira. Allegedly, he was upset Parreira made some remarks about the French team making the world cup at the expense of Ireland after Henry's infamous hand ball.
Here's the thing. Aside from once and for all displaying his low character, this is the guy who did nothing but make unsubstantiated insulting remarks about Italian soccer for over two years TO THE MEDIA. This is the same guy whose side line antics were so obstuse and degrading, it left me wondering who was running the FFF.
In an a nutshell he's an asshole.
Good going FFF. Laurent Blanc has the tall task of repairing French football. A class player in his days, if I were him, I'd throw the identified rotten eggs off the team and bring in a new batch of stars to which there are a few to choose from in France.
Since Zidane's headbutt (something he never really owned up to despite the truth), it's been nothing but misery for French soccer and they've become a laughing stock of world football.
A shame really. In my formative soccer years, I grew attached to the French sides of the 1980s. Dominique Rocheteau was one of my all-time favorite players. Those teams were chic, talented and classy. The side of the late 1990s and 2000s were cocky but backed it up with victories and any potential loose cannons were kept in line with a core leadership. They talked but nothing we hadn't heard in pro sports.
End of an era. Start afresh.
Notice the wagging of the finger. I'd be tempted to punch him:
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