For Halftown Since that fateful day in 2006 that sank his Zinedine Zidane on Materazzi's chest, the French football has not lifted his head.
Many (all?) Thought it was the fault of Raymond Domenech, the coach unable , awkward and unbearable on the field outside. It is said that his only sporting success, the final 2006, was due to the self-imposed by the players and led by Zizou himself from the second round.
Something began to change in Knysna, South Africa, the day the French players refused to get off the bus to train. When Domenech appeared before the media, it was as if it was not the thing with him. There became clear that the revolutionary aux armes citoyens had returned to light in the French apparel , where, as FNF was at the time, blacks, whites and Ribéry went their separate ways.
With the appointment of coach Laurent Blanc as things changed. First the team began to produce results (not set). Then he left the three Adidas stripes to embrace the American swoosh. Ribéry even made peace with Gourcuff. What seemed
regeneration of French football seems to jump into the air since last Saturday, the online journal Mediapart dropped the bomb: from the technical direction of the French Federation has decided to create a share in the training and selection players. The French site publishes verbatims a meeting last November between Laurent Blanc, François Blaquart technical director and coach Erick Mombaerts U21. What emerges from the conversation is the concern of the three men on two specific issues. The first is the preference that French clubs are the big players on the physically powerful featherweight. The problem is that in France, the largest types all have black skin.
The second issue to debate is the need to limit the number of players in lower divisions of the French who, in due course, may choose to defend the colors of a former French colony . The taboo here is that these players were born in the former French colonies, or descendants of immigrants in France.
The conclusion that the three men seem to come is that the future of French football going to limit the impact of these two variables.
As expected, the issue has taken root in French society, left and right have torn their clothes to the beat and the current coach has had to leave to defend against the onslaught of sarcastic remarks to which lends its name.
Blanc What if he is right? With a cool head that gives us not being French, consider the two arguments.
1 - The players are big, strong, powerful black majority in the French football and hates Blanc
Looking at the list of Domenech for the World Cup, a total of twenty players are twelve black field. While some of them, Diaby, Gallas, Diarra, Cissé, respond to stereotype others as Evra, Henry, Clichy and Malouda are as or more technical than their white compatriots or Arabs. Let
to Blanc. In the French world champion, he captained the team called black, blanc, beur by the mixture of races that he had "the infantry was made up of white players (Barthez, Lizarazu, Deschamps, Petit, himself) while those marked differences (Zidane, Djorkaeff, Thuram) were "foreigners." If we look at the latest list of Blanc for an official match, last March in Luxembourg, found on twenty nine blacks, excluding goalkeepers. While that is 25% less black compared to last summer, it is also true that Blanc has introduced new players respond to stereotype, as Mamadou Sakho or Loïc Rémy. Even more, the three blacks could well be missing Gallas, Anelka and Henry. The first two sanctioned by the FFF after the riot in South Africa and the third with no legs to play beyond the MLS.
Conclusion on the first point: if Laurent Blanc is racist, he has not shown as coach.
2 - The French selection weakens the players have dual nationality at lower levels
Needless to say that France has for many years that Spain received more immigrants from its former colonies. And yes, just put a Ligue 1 match at random to realize that, in effect, the teams have a high number of immigrants from both first and second generation North African (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) and the Saharan Africa (Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Senegal).
However, how many players in the colonies would have made a difference if they have chosen to play in France? Some will, but who writes these lines You can come to mind Didier Drogba, Seydou Keita, Touré brothers, Achille Emana and possibly Adel Taarabt. Perhaps Samuel Eto'o could have asked for French nationality, who knows.
Going further, French football has their own Idol soccer since the early nineties, an academy that is trained in the art of ball to the best talent in the country: Clairefontaine . If we look at the players coming out there (they have the full list here ) we find historical bleus as Henry, Gallas, Sylvestre, Anelka, Saha, Briand, Ben Arfa or Diaby. And none of them is, of course, white. But the question is another: how many players in that elite French youth has come to defend the colors of another selection rather than the French? None. internationals under other flags, as Benachour (Tunisia), Meghni (Algeria) or Dia (Senegal), they would dress in blue in the fucking life. Conclusion
the second thesis: there is a majority of black players in lower divisions and Arabs in France, but those with talent just defending the French tricolor. So here Blanc err in the calculation.
With presidential elections next year needless to say that has not been sufficient time to the sports minister appointed by Nicolas Sarkozy, Chantal Jouanno to put their beards to soak. Input, François Blaquart has been suspended from duty. Mediapart promises new revelations in the coming days. Will it continue?
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