Costa Rica vs France ....Friendly [R]

[EstebanGranero23]

I don't think so.

Eurosport are showing it in Europe.

You'll have to keep checking http://www.live-foot.com/matchs I guess..
Yea Eurosport got it, but is TV5 showing the Germany match????

[Rima067]

Yea Eurosport got it, but is TV5 showing the Germany match????

Yep, TV5 is showing the Germany match.

[Shaydee]

I'm just guessing that Martinez and Parks play outside of the CRC championship??

Martinez plays for Brescia and Parks plays for Lokomotiv Moscow.

[matabala]

I always thought that Henry's family hailed from Guadeloupe. He himself was born en Metropole.

He said today on French news that his mother was from Martinique.

[EstebanGranero23]

Til now all I've seen is what Domenech had to say about re-calling Nico, and nothing what Nico said. And btw, Nico is also from Martinuqe. And I also read that Nico might start. Would that be possible with Cisse in the side?? And a cool fact I never knew is that France are unbeaten since Domenech took over.

[fishbiproduct]

The "goal-keeper saga":


_it'll be Barthez against Costa-Rica
_and Coupet against Germany

"Raymond" won't make a decision as to who will be
our #1 keeper until March 06

[gaijin]

I always thought that Henry's family hailed from Guadeloupe. He himself was born en Metropole.
He was born in Les Ulis in Paris. But he spent a lot of his childhood in his parent's native Martinique. He has strong ties with the island.

I believe Thuram is from Guadeloupe.

[soji22]

He was born in Les Ulis in Paris. But he spent a lot of his childhood in his parent's native Martinique. He has strong ties with the island.

I believe Thuram is from Guadeloupe.

Thuram is from Guadeloupe. He was born in the largest city, Pointe-a-Pitre. He left for L' Hexagone at the age of nine.

[MoRado]

what French line-up are you expecting? I wanna see all the stars playing at least 15 minutes!

[Rima067]

He was born in Les Ulis in Paris. But he spent a lot of his childhood in his parent's native Martinique. He has strong ties with the island.



Are you sure he spent much of his childhood, (even one visit) in Martinique? Pre 15 years old? I've never heard of this so maybe I just don't know, but what I find unbelievable, from everything I've read, they wouldn't have been able to afford making this happen even once.

[gaijin]

Are you sure he spent much of his childhood, (even one visit) in Martinique? Pre 15 years old? I've never heard of this so maybe I just don't know, but what I find unbelievable, from everything I've read, they wouldn't have been able to afford making this happen even once.
Apparently from an article I read about him, he often stayed with his grandmother in Martinique when he was little.

Maybe not a lot, but he spent a chunk of his life there and he has very strong bonds to it.

[MoRado]

what French line-up are you expecting? I wanna see all the stars playing at least 15 minutes!
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Fabien Barthez
Willie Sagnol, Lilliam Thuram, William Gallas y Erick Abidal.

Claude Makelele, Patrick Vieira, Florense Malouda y Silvaine Wiltord.
Nicolás Anelka Thierry Henry.

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[gaijin]

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Fabien Barthez
Willie Sagnol, Lilliam Thuram, William Gallas y Erick Abidal.

Claude Makelele, Patrick Vieira, Florense Malouda y Silvaine Wiltord.
Nicolás Anelka Thierry Henry.

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Yeah, I'd go with that...

Probably Cisse for Anelka me thinks with Malouda on the left and Wiltord on the right.

It will be interesting if Coupet or Barthez start...

[lefutur]

Personally I'm looking forward to seeing what Anelka can do. I want to see him start. He's from the region so why not?

I dont think its going to be a high scoring game however with Zizou out, maybe 1 or 2 goals for France.

[fishbiproduct]

Hmmm...Vieira isn't part of the group.

These are the 23 players who made the trip:

Fabien Barthez, Grégory Coupet , Mickaël Landreau

Eric Abidal, Jean-Alain Boumsong, William Gallas, Gaël Givet,
Franck Jurietti, Anthony Réveillère, Willy Sagnol, Lilian Thuram.

Alou Diarra, Vikash Dhorasoo, Claude Makelele, Florent Malouda,
Jérôme Rothen, Patrick Vieira

Nicolas Anelka, Djibril Cissé, Thierry Henry, Sidney Govou,
David Trezeguet, Sylvain Wiltord


And starting team according to Eurosport.fr:

--------------Barthez-------------

-Sagnol---Thuram---Gallas---Abidal

Wiltord---Makelele-Dhorasoo---Malouda

-----------Anelka---Henry---------

[fishbiproduct]

Bizarre, bizarre...now, still at eurosport.fr, it's
changed to this:

---------------Barthez -------------

Gallas---Thuram---Givet---Abidal

Wiltord---Diarra---Dhorasoo---Malouda

----------Anelka-----Henry

So...if I were you, I wouldn't take my word for it
;)

[lefutur]

Bizarre, bizarre...now, still at eurosport.fr, it's
changed to this:

---------------Barthez -------------

Gallas---Thuram---Givet---Abidal

Wiltord---Diarra---Dhorasoo---Malouda

----------Anelka-----Henry

So...if I were you, I wouldn't take my word for it
;)

No Maka or Vieira??? Etrange!

[lefutur]

From Eurosport:

"Au milieu de terrain, Vieira et Makelele sont laissés au repos, sans doute pour débuter samedi contre l'Allemagne, et Domenech a choisi d'aligner un milieu axial pour le moins inédit avec le duo Diarra-Dhoraso."

[fishbiproduct]

From Eurosport:

"Au milieu de terrain, Vieira et Makelele sont laissés au repos, sans doute pour débuter samedi contre l'Allemagne, et Domenech a choisi d'aligner un milieu axial pour le moins inédit avec le duo Diarra-Dhoraso."

Ah! now we know.

[Shaydee]

Ah! now we know.

except for those of us who don't speak french...help a brother out :)