FRANCE - Summer 2012 thread

Sorry this is off-topic but some of these are awesome:

http://pagespro-orange.fr/jb.oury/belges.html

and there's this one:

Des Belges arrivent au Canada pour faire un vol de banque; alors la nuit ils rentrent tous dans la banque et ouvre le coffre fort. Ils regardent et se disent «Des yoghourts ils se fichent de nous ! ». L'autre dit «On va manger tous les yoghourts, alors ils vont être fâchés demain ! ». Alors ils mangent et trouvent ça délicieux. Le lendemain on peut lire dans les journaux « La banque du sperme a été dévalisée ! »

Ha ha good one!!!!

Allez les rouges wrote:Sorry this is off-topic but some of these are awesome:

http://pagespro-orange.fr/jb.oury/belges.html

and there's this one:

Des Belges arrivent au Canada pour faire un vol de banque; alors la nuit ils rentrent tous dans la banque et ouvre le coffre fort. Ils regardent et se disent «Des yoghourts ils se fichent de nous ! ». L'autre dit «On va manger tous les yoghourts, alors ils vont être fâchés demain ! ». Alors ils mangent et trouvent ça délicieux. Le lendemain on peut lire dans les journaux « La banque du sperme a été dévalisée ! »

Allez les rouges wrote:Sorry this is off-topic but some of these are awesome:

http://pagespro-orange.fr/jb.oury/belges.html

and there's this one:

Des Belges arrivent au Canada pour faire un vol de banque; alors la nuit ils rentrent tous dans la banque et ouvre le coffre fort. Ils regardent et se disent «Des yoghourts ils se fichent de nous ! ». L'autre dit «On va manger tous les yoghourts, alors ils vont être fâchés demain ! ». Alors ils mangent et trouvent ça délicieux. Le lendemain on peut lire dans les journaux « La banque du sperme a été dévalisée ! »

Tu es belge Allez ?

Pfft tu plaisantes?!?!

Même si des fois j'ai soif et des fois je n'ai pas soif

Oh yeah, let's all laugh at the Belgians, you should be nicer to your smaller neighbour.

I always knew some bellend was going to come along and complain, some of them are classic, you shouldn't take it so seriously

First XI against Costa Rica

4-3-3 :
Mandanda
Sagna Gallas Abidal Evra
Gourcuff Toulalan Malouda
Govou Anelka Ribery

Henry on the bench.

Allez les rouges wrote:Pfft tu plaisantes?!?!

Même si des fois j'ai soif et des fois je n'ai pas soif

Aah, j'ai cru que tu étais Flammand.

Goal for Costa Rica

Goal for france (own goal)

HT 1-1

Finished 2-1.

A good goal by Valbuena(he can really twat them from distance) after some tasty footwork from Diaby.

Very nice play from Diaby and good goal from Valbuena. Did watch the game but read articles, which said that Ribery played on the left side which is his favorite position. Good at last that Domemech let him play there. Whereas the left side played well (Evra-Malouda-Ribery) the right side was not terrible (Sagna-Gourcuff-Govou). Not really a surprise though.
Valbuena scored the winner for his first appearance. He is going to do a Ribery (2006)? Who knows!

EMB favourite Thierry Henry has retired from international football finishing with 123 caps and a record 51 goals.

One of the greats

Legend

As many WC KO stage goals as Emile Heskey. That's one for the road.

Monaco

Ligue 1: 1996–97
French Super Cup: 1997

Arsenal

FA Premier League: 2001–02, 2003–04
FA Cup: 2002, 2003, 2005
FA Community Shield: 2002, 2004

Barcelona

La Liga: 2008–09, 2009–10
Copa del Rey: 2008–09
Supercopa de España: 2009
UEFA Champions League: 2008–09
UEFA Super Cup: 2009
FIFA Club World Cup: 2009

International

FIFA World Cup: 1998
UEFA European Football Championship: 2000
FIFA Confederations Cup: 2003

Individual

UEFA Football Championship Team of the Tournament: 2000
Confederations Cup top goalscorer: 2003
Confederations Cup Golden Ball: 2003
FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 2006
Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year: 1996–97
PFA Players' Player of the Year: 2002–03, 2003–04
European Golden Boot: 2004, 2005
Premier League Golden Boot: 2001–02, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06.
Onze d'Or: 2003, 2006
PFA Team of the Year: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
FWA Footballer Of The Year: 2002–03, 2003–04, 2005–06
World XI Striker: 2006
UEFA Team of the Year: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006
French Player of the Year: 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
English Football Hall of Fame: 2008
Goal of the Season (UK): 2003
Barclays Player of the Month: April 2000, September 2002, January 2004, April 2004
FIFA 100
Time 100: 2007
Overseas Team of the Decade: Premier League 10 Seasons Awards (1992–93 to 2001–02)

Big 4 Billy Bollocks wrote:As many WC KO stage goals as Emile Heskey. That's one for the road.

:Stats: In the 2006 WC Henry was playing an unfamiliar (previous to that year) role as the lone stinker. Playing as the TM, a role he is unsuited to, Henry still was very important to his team reaching the final. His importance can be seen in that he was directly involved in every goal France scored apart from the three vs Spain and the first goal vs Togo.

He sacrificed a lot of his natural game for his team. A team that has always played conservative structured football.

COTR wrote:*henry jerkoff mode*

YAWN.

Can't believe you forgot to add that he was a 3 time winner of the EMB Uber-conte shield.

Big 4 Billy Bollocks wrote:

COTR wrote:*henry jerkoff mode*

Can't believe you forgot to add that he was a 3 time winner of the EMB Uber-conte shield.

He manages to rope you in every single time.

Quite a power the great man has over you T/S

There's a French football web site that imagined the French team (against Norway next month) without all the world cup players.
It would look like that:

Landreau-Fanni-Rami-Ciani-Tremoulas-Sissoko-Cheyroux- Nasri- Remy, Benzema, Menez


Subs: 12. Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal)
13. Philippe Mexès (AS Roma)
14. Christophe Jallet (Paris SG)
15. Aly Cissokho (Lyon)
16. Nicolas Douchez (Rennes)
17. Lassana Diarra (Real Madrid)
18. Yohan Cabaye (Lille)
19. Sylvain Marveaux (Rennes)
20. Jimmy Briand (Lyon)
21. Kevin Gameiro (Lorient)
22. Guillaume Hoarau (Paris SG)
23. Olivier Sorin (Auxerre)

Lots of potentially great players there. This team would have certainly done better int he world cup.

Has there been any indications of what Blanc's plans are for that friendly in terms of dropping the players that let the country down in SA? I'm rather pessimistic that Capello will make changes to England aside from bringing in a few younger players like Rodwell but I would like to see how other nations resond to their own failures.

I think Koscielny said he would take his time in deciding between France or Poland, anyway we have to see if he has what it takes first.

I "hate" France - first they are a disgrace at WC, and later because of that they are calling up Koscielny for a new NT, destroying chances of him playing in our NT

shazlx wrote:

Big 4 Billy Bollocks wrote:As many WC KO stage goals as Emile Heskey. That's one for the road.

:Stats: In the 2006 WC Henry was playing an unfamiliar (previous to that year) role as the lone stinker. Playing as the TM, a role he is unsuited to, Henry still was very important to his team reaching the final. His importance can be seen in that he was directly involved in every goal France scored apart from the three vs Spain and the first goal vs Togo.

He sacrificed a lot of his natural game for his team. A team that has always played conservative structured football.

He was not directly involved in Zidane's goal against Italy. You have to applaud him for his dive against Portugal though

He was not played as a traditional target man anyway, just as a lone striker, which gave him a bit more freedom than he previously had (when he was playing off Trezeguet). He can't have any complaints though, he was never good enough to have an international side like France to be built around him.

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:

shazlx wrote:

Big 4 Billy Bollocks wrote:As many WC KO stage goals as Emile Heskey. That's one for the road.

:Stats: In the 2006 WC Henry was playing an unfamiliar (previous to that year) role as the lone stinker. Playing as the TM, a role he is unsuited to, Henry still was very important to his team reaching the final. His importance can be seen in that he was directly involved in every goal France scored apart from the three vs Spain and the first goal vs Togo.

He sacrificed a lot of his natural game for his team. A team that has always played conservative structured football.

He was not directly involved in Zidane's goal against Italy. You have to applaud him for his dive against Portugal though

So that wasn't a penalty nah?

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:

shazlx wrote:

Big 4 Billy Bollocks wrote:As many WC KO stage goals as Emile Heskey. That's one for the road.

:Stats: In the 2006 WC Henry was playing an unfamiliar (previous to that year) role as the lone stinker. Playing as the TM, a role he is unsuited to, Henry still was very important to his team reaching the final. His importance can be seen in that he was directly involved in every goal France scored apart from the three vs Spain and the first goal vs Togo.

He sacrificed a lot of his natural game for his team. A team that has always played conservative structured football.

He was not directly involved in Zidane's goal against Italy.

Yes he was. He provided the knock down for Malouda to get the penalty.

shazlx wrote:

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:

shazlx wrote:

Big 4 Billy Bollocks wrote:As many WC KO stage goals as Emile Heskey. That's one for the road.

:Stats: In the 2006 WC Henry was playing an unfamiliar (previous to that year) role as the lone stinker. Playing as the TM, a role he is unsuited to, Henry still was very important to his team reaching the final. His importance can be seen in that he was directly involved in every goal France scored apart from the three vs Spain and the first goal vs Togo.

He sacrificed a lot of his natural game for his team. A team that has always played conservative structured football.

He was not directly involved in Zidane's goal against Italy.

Yes he was. He provided the knock down for Malouda to get the penalty.

Therefore he was indirectly involved.

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:

shazlx wrote:

BoBo Vieri 32 wrote:

shazlx wrote:

Big 4 Billy Bollocks wrote:As many WC KO stage goals as Emile Heskey. That's one for the road.

:Stats: In the 2006 WC Henry was playing an unfamiliar (previous to that year) role as the lone stinker. Playing as the TM, a role he is unsuited to, Henry still was very important to his team reaching the final. His importance can be seen in that he was directly involved in every goal France scored apart from the three vs Spain and the first goal vs Togo.

He sacrificed a lot of his natural game for his team. A team that has always played conservative structured football.

He was not directly involved in Zidane's goal against Italy.

Yes he was. He provided the knock down for Malouda to get the penalty.

Therefore he was indirectly involved.

No, the original goal scoring opportunity was Malouda's which Henry created.