{"id":946,"date":"2010-06-22T20:16:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=946"},"modified":"2010-06-22T20:19:50","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T20:19:50","slug":"scandal-mondial-bleus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/scandal-mondial-bleus\/","title":{"rendered":"Scandal au Mondial des Bleus !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ca y est les gars, c&#8217;est fini ! <\/em>(That&#8217;s all folks,\u00a0it&#8217;s over!)<br \/>\n<em>Prochain rendez-vous des Bleus\u00a0dans quatre ans pour la <strong>Coupe du Monde au Br\u00e9sil<\/strong><\/em> (Next <em>rendez-vous<\/em> for\u00a0<em>les Bleus<\/em>\u00a0in four years for the World Cup in Brazil), and in two years for the <strong>UEFA Euro 2012<\/strong> in <em><strong>la<\/strong> <strong>Pologne <\/strong><\/em>(Poland) and <strong><em>l&#8217;Ukraine<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>But then, the\u00a0nagging\u00a0question that remains is<em>:\u00a0<strong>Que s&#8217;est-il\u00a0pass\u00e9, au juste\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>?<\/strong> (What happened, exactly?)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Les guignols de l&#039;info: brice hortefeux &quot;allez l&#039;Alg\u00e9rie&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L6pdAAAm2pU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is true that,\u00a0since <strong>Zidane<\/strong> left <em>l&#8217;\u00e9quipe de France<\/em> in 2006<em>,\u00a0&#8220;<strong>la descente aux enfers<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; (&#8220;the descent into hell&#8221;) seemed to take\u00a0its course uninterrupted. The <strong>2008 Euro<\/strong>\u00a0was\u00a0a\u00a0let down\u00a0for <em>les Bleus<\/em>,\u00a0and their\u00a02010 World Cup qualifiers were\u00a0not particularly<em>\u00a0<em>tr\u00e8s <\/em>convainquants<\/em> (very convincing.)<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0new low has been reached this week during\u00a0<em>le match <\/em>that opposed them against <em>le Mexique<\/em>: Everyone had noticed that something quite\u00a0&#8220;unsavory&#8221; was\u00a0prevailing<em> au sein\u00a0de l&#8217;\u00e9quipe<\/em>\u00a0(within the team), but\u00a0a few\u00a0backstage\u00a0scandalous details have eventually\u00a0found their way\u00a0into the French media columns: It appears that\u00a0the<em>\u00a0attaquant of les Bleus<\/em>, <strong>Nicolas Anelka<\/strong><em>, <\/em>had verbally attacked the coach, <strong>Raymond Domenech<\/strong>, during the halftime of the game,\u00a0and the\u00a0profinaties\u00a0were printed <em>&#8220;verbatim<\/em>&#8221; in\u00a0<em>la Une<\/em>\u00a0(the front page) of one of the\u00a0largest\u00a0sport newspapers\u00a0in France: <strong><em>L&#8217;<em>\u00c9<\/em>quipe<\/em><\/strong> <em>!<\/em><strong>Reaction of Domenech:<\/strong> <em>Explusion de Anleka de l&#8217;\u00c9quipe de France<\/em>.<br \/>\n<em><strong>R\u00e9action des joueurs<\/strong><\/em> (reaction of the players): To protest the\u00a0sanction against\u00a0Anelka, and the &#8220;exfiltration&#8221; of the news\u00a0about the fight Anelka-Domenech,\u00a0they\u00a0decide to do what some may view as a French reaction <em>par excellence<\/em>: <em>Ils font <strong>une gr\u00e8ve<\/strong> !\u00a0<\/em> (They go on strike!)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a9cAwXiV0cY\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a9cAwXiV0cY<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Call it what you will:<em>\u00a0Une <em>temp\u00eate <\/em><\/em>(a storm), <em>un scandal,\u00a0une catastrophe, une d\u00e9b\u00e2cle<\/em>,<em> un fiasco, une pagaille<\/em> (a mayhem), <em>une d\u00e9route<\/em>, <em>une d\u00e9confiture, une faillite,<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<em>un d\u00e9sastre<\/em>, <em>une crise <\/em>(a crisis),\u00a0or even<em> une autre\u00a0r\u00e9volution <\/em><em>fran\u00e7aise<\/em>; one thing is sure though: The French Football\u00a0team is today\u00a0witnessing\u00a0<em><strong>un tournant d\u00e9cisif<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(a decisive turning point) in its history.<em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Even<em>\u00a0le Pr\u00e9seident de la R\u00e9publique<\/em>,<em> <\/em><strong>Nicolas Sakozy<\/strong>, had to intervene personally\u00a0into <em>la pol\u00e9mique<\/em>,\u00a0as well as<em>\u00a0Madame la Ministre des\u00a0Finances <\/em>(Finance Minister), <strong>Christine Lagarde<\/strong>, whom we thought was\u00a0already too busy dealing\u00a0with the delicate\u00a0intricacies of\u00a0<em>la crise financi\u00e8re<\/em>, and who has\u00a0herself represented France as a synchronized swimmer,\u00a0jumping\u00a0on the bandwagon to say\u00a0that the behavior of<em>\u00a0les Bleus<\/em>\u00a0is<em>\u00a0inacceptable<\/em> (unacceptable), most especially\u00a0since the young French look up to them,\u00a0regarding them as\u00a0role models.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, all French supporters are desperately\u00a0turning their eyes towards\u00a0<strong>Laurent Blanc<\/strong>: The former French player who\u00a0scored the first ever <em>but en or <\/em>(golden goal) in the history of the World Cup (against <strong>Paraguay<\/strong> in <strong>1998<\/strong>, when France won the World Cup) will be the<em> <strong>le nouveau entra\u00eeneur de l&#8217;\u00e9quipe de France<\/strong> <\/em>(the new coach of the French team.)<\/p>\n<p>Will<strong> Laurent Blanc<\/strong> be\u00a0<em>le sauveur<\/em>\u00a0(the savior) of <em>les Bleus ?<\/em>\u00a0Only time will tell, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Finally,\u00a0<em>une petite anecdote<\/em>: Nicolas Anelka is married since 2007 to\u00a0Belgian choreographer<strong> Barbara Tausia<\/strong>, who is also\u00a0the founder of a public relations firm called &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bw-between.fr\/\">Between<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;, which counts as clients, among other celebrities,\u00a0<strong>Jay Z <\/strong>and<strong> Timbaland.<\/strong>Will\u00a0her specialized\u00a0firm\u00a0be able to help improve\u00a0her husband&#8217;s\u00a0severed\u00a0<em>image de marque<\/em>\u00a0(corporate image) in France and elsewhere?<br \/>\nShe will have to start with <strong>Cr\u00e9dit Agricole<\/strong>, who has officially announced that it was suspending one of its TV spots that featured Anelka and the rest of <em>les Bleus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Comble de\u00a0l&#8217;ironie\u00a0<\/em>(Supreme irony): It\u00a0apprears that one of the clients of\u00a0Anelka&#8217;s wife\u00a0is none other\u00a0than the French coach himself, Raymond Domenech, who is, at the time of this writing,\u00a0still prominently featured on the website of the PR firm!<br \/>\nCheck for yourself: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bw-between.fr\">www.bw-between.fr<\/a> !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ca y est les gars, c&#8217;est fini ! (That&#8217;s all folks,\u00a0it&#8217;s over!) Prochain rendez-vous des Bleus\u00a0dans quatre ans pour la Coupe du Monde au Br\u00e9sil (Next rendez-vous for\u00a0les Bleus\u00a0in four years for the World Cup in Brazil), and in two years for the UEFA Euro 2012 in la Pologne (Poland) and l&#8217;Ukraine. But then, the\u00a0nagging\u00a0question&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/scandal-mondial-bleus\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9645,9646,9643,9650,9641,2143,2149,9651,9648,9639,9640,9644,8294,9538,525,9647,9557,9642,9638,9637,9649],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barbara-tausia","tag-between","tag-christine-lagarde","tag-credit-agricole","tag-fiasco","tag-football","tag-france","tag-image-de-marque","tag-jay-z","tag-lequipe","tag-la-greve-des-joueurs","tag-laurent-blanc","tag-les-bleus","tag-nicolas-anelka","tag-nicolas-sarkozy","tag-pr-firm","tag-raymond-domenech","tag-revolution-francaise","tag-ribery","tag-scandal","tag-timbaland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}