Apparently no thread about this info here, so here we go... French legend Just Fontaine dies at the age of 89. It's time to pay tribute to this...
Bruno Martini died aged 58 after a heart attack. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/54614434 Sad new. He was an old-fashioned, highly reliable...
Pound for pound, which team is better ? There are a lot of similarities : same defensive, counter-attacking approach of the game. Same mix of...
One year ago the unimaginable happened in Paris. The 130 assassinated people and hundreds of wounded men and women will not be forgotten. [IMG]...
https://news.yahoo.com/decapitated-body-found-attack-french-factory-091521292.html
When talking about Zidane we can hear a lot of extreme and very contradictary points of view. Some say he was among the very best players ever,...
I've recently found these clips focusing on Platini during his Euro84 campaign. I find them particularly interesting as they show well Platini's...
If you like, attacking, flowing football I think you'll enjoy it... France - Brazil 78 (friendly game, 1-0)...
Very fun to watch, and very interesting to see Di Stefano, Kubala, Suarez and Gento (what a team :eek:) in action vs Kopa, Fontaine, Vincent,...
Very funny video, especially with the policemen. The guy is not even a professional football player......
Do you guys know it ? http://www.castrolfootball.com/legends/ Basically, the Castrol index measures past teams and players performances to...
The number of free-kicks Platini scored is surreal. Has any other player scored more free-kicks at international level (Zico ??) ? YouTube -...
French plane lost over Atlantic An Air France plane carrying at least 228 people from Brazil has disappeared from radar screens over the...
... for allowing France to qualify ! :) And congratulations too... ;)
I've really not seen enough of Fontaine to do the man justice barring the '58 World Cup, however I've seen enough of Jean-Pierre Papin to say he's...
Now that he's retired, how people will remember him ? I personally think that despite his eccentricities and his few but rather spectacular...
...and who has the best ratio free-kicks/games played ? I know for example that Michel Platini scored 11 free-kicks for France in 72 caps (out...