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France World Cup 2010 jersey | France soccer jersey

December 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

News:
With the help of Thierry Henry’s hand and good fortunes France managed to squeeze through the qualification rounds and into the main tournament of the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. A hand play by Henry ended up being decisive as France grabbed the winner deep into extra time by a goal from Gallas being assisted by Henry.
Before the two-legged knock-out match between France and Ireland for a spot a South Africa France had a new national team jersey revealed which will be used for the matches in South Africa. The jersey was launched alongside the jerseys of other adidas teams such as Germany, Spain, Denmark, Argentina, South Africa and Mexico. Other adidas teams at the World Cup 2010 includes Slovakia, Greece, Nigeria, Japan, and Paraguay.
The theme and the inspiration for the French jersey is found in the France jerseys from the 1980s and in particularly the 1984 jersey used for the Euro 1984 in France. France won the tournament in 1984 with the likes of Platini, Giresse, and Tigana on the team. The photo below is from the opening match in 1984 between France and Denmark. France won the match 1-0 by a late goal from Michel Platini.

Platini France Euro 1984 jersey

Platini France Euro 1984 jersey

The latest jersey is also in the colors of the French flag the tri-colore blue, white, and red.

France World Cup 2010 soccer jersey

France World Cup 2010 soccer jersey

Currently two French players in Real Madrid are among the players who will travel to South Africa for the World Cup 2010 in June. Lass Diarra and Karim Benzema. The two are the latest in a long standing tradition of French players in Real Madrid going back in time. The greatest French player since Platini – Zinedine Zidane is also currently affiliated to Real Madrid as special advisor to the President and the board of the club regarding sporting issues. He retired from Real Madrid back in 2006 after 5 very successful seasons with the club.

French soccer players in Real Madrid

French soccer players in Real Madrid

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Copa del Rey: Real Madrid – Alcorcon 1-0 | adios a la Copa..

November 11, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Press | match report:
Real Madrid lost the first leg of the Spanish Cup tie against Alcorcon 4-0 away from home. Thus in order to go through to the next round Real Madrid would need to score at least 5 goals at the Bernabeu. So in the days leading up to the match the press had been reviewing the history in order to find examples of Real Madrid overcoming a 4-0 deficit. The club had overcome such adversity before throughout the history so the hopes were high for a strong rebound. But… It all came to nothing since the match ended with a narrow 1-0 victory on a late goal by Van Der Vaart in the 81th minute.
The crowd was not pleased and predictably the media neither so. The Real Madrid team and coach Manuel Pellegrini were roasted in all post-match analyses throughout the entire media spectra: print media , radio , television. That FC Barcelona won 5-0 at home against a Segunda B team like Alcorcon and that Atletico Madrid won 6-1 against Marbella also a lower ranking club did not make matters better.

portado Spanish press Real Madrid - Alcorcon

portado Spanish press Real Madrid - Alcorcon

The Madrid sportspaper AS speaks of “siniestro total” – total wreck with a large photo of Pellegrini on the frontpage. Furthermore it goes: Pellegrini agota el credito – “Pellegrini has no more credit left”.
The substitution of Lass provoked the anger of the crowd. Sergio Ramos could have played but nobody knew.
Pellegrini defends himself saying: “Lass was not the one who was going to score 4 goals anyway”.
See the substitution of Lass:

Each player gets a note from 3 – 1 | 3 being the highest and 0 being failed.
Dudek – 0 (Alcorcon did not score so why Dudek deserves such a grading is hard to figure out)
Lass – 3
Pepe – 2
Albiol – 1
Arbeloa – 0
Gago – 0
Diarra – 0
Higuain – 1
Kaka – 0
Raul – 0
v. Nistelrooy – 0
Marcelo – 1
v. der Vaart – 2

Man of the match Lass though he did not produce much offensively atleast he was strong at the back and good at robbing the ball from the opponent.

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