{"id":15156,"date":"2012-06-14T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=15156"},"modified":"2017-10-20T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T11:12:42","slug":"euro-2012-allez-la-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/euro-2012-allez-la-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro 2012: Allez la France!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>L&#8217;\u00e9quipe de France\u00a0<\/em>boasts several reknown names: Rib\u00e9ry, Benzema, Nasri, and others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Come meet the French squad of the Euro 2012, ahead of the crucial game coming up tomorrow: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">France vs. Ukraine<\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>Gardien<\/em>: Hugo LLORIS<\/strong><\/span>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">First, meet <em><strong>le gardien de but<\/strong><\/em> (the goalkeeper) as well as <strong><em>le capitaine <\/em><\/strong>since almost two years now: <strong>Hugo Lloris<\/strong>. Nicknamed &#8220;<strong><em>Saint Lloris<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; by his aficionados, he currently plays for one of the best French teams of <strong><em>la Ligue 1<\/em><\/strong>, <em><strong>l&#8217;Olympique Lyonnais<\/strong><\/em>. As a youngster, Hugo had a special gift for tennis, but then his passion for <strong><em>le football <\/em><\/strong>became too irresistible, so he dropped the former sport for the latter. He made his <em><strong>d\u00e9but<\/strong><\/em> in the club of his hometown, <strong>Nice<\/strong>, and surprised many when he chose to snub <strong>AC Milan<\/strong>\u00a0in favor of\u00a0<strong>Lyon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: center;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>D\u00e9fenseur<\/em>: Patrice EVRA:<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Who said that if you once play offense, you can never play as a\u00a0<strong><em>d\u00e9fenseur <\/em><\/strong>afterwards? Well, Evra, a <strong>Senegal<\/strong>-born player who has been playing for six years in\u00a0<strong>Manchester United <\/strong>is a case in point.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">In France, Evra is still remembered as the initiator of the infamous mutiny which broke during the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/les-sacres-bleus-en-coupe-du-monde-2010\/\">2010 World Cup in South Africa<\/a><\/strong>, when several French players refused to train due to an argument with <strong><em>l&#8217;entra\u00eeneur<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(the coach.)<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>D\u00e9fenseur<\/em>:\u00a0Laurent KOSCIELNY<\/span>:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Born in <strong>Tulle<\/strong>, the same place where French President <strong>Fran\u00e7ois Hollande<\/strong> was elected mayor for seven years, <strong>Laurent Koscielny<\/strong>\u00a0played for several French teams, before landing in Premiere League <strong>English<\/strong> team <strong>Arsenal FC<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The little French commune of <strong>Tulle <\/strong>claims yet another connection to Football, albeit an odd one: In the aftermath of the so-called &#8220;<strong>Generals&#8217; Putsch<\/strong>&#8220;, namely the <strong>1961<\/strong> botched mutiny led by four French Generals against him,\u00a0<strong><em>le G\u00e9n\u00e9ral De Gaule <\/em><\/strong>was famously rumored to have\u00a0referred to them as &#8220;<strong>those idiotic generals playing ball in Tulle Prison<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The football-loving Generals cooled their heels in the Tulle jail for some years.<\/div>\n<p>Put in comparison, <strong>Evra<\/strong>, the leader of the <strong>2010 World Cup<\/strong> mutiny which earned\u00a0<strong><em>les Bleus <\/em><\/strong>an early exit from <strong>South Africa<\/strong>, practically got away &#8220;<strong>scot free<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>\u00c0 Suivre<\/em> (To be Continued)<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L&#8217;\u00e9quipe de France\u00a0boasts several reknown names: Rib\u00e9ry, Benzema, Nasri, and others. Come meet the French squad of the Euro 2012, ahead of the crucial game coming up tomorrow: France vs. Ukraine! Gardien: Hugo LLORIS: First, meet le gardien de but (the goalkeeper) as well as le capitaine since almost two years now: Hugo Lloris. 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