World Cup Squads Are Getting Whittled Down, World Cup Winners Are Getting Cut
The 32 coaches named their preliminary World Cup squads just a week ago. Most chose 30 players, and don’t need to name their final 23 man squads until June 1st. However, like over-eager lumberjacks, a couple of those coaches have started making cuts early.
Yesterday France coach Raymond Domenech reduced his 30 to 24, with Marseille’s...
10 World Cup Questions: France
If you’re unfamiliar with World Cup Blog, then allow me to explain: The blog you’re reading now is the front page, but the core of WCB is the multitude of team specific blogs, including one for each of the World Cup 2010 teams.
The authors of these team blogs have forgotten more about their sides than...
Zahia Dehar’s Letter to France Coach Raymond Domenech
Rather odd story in France today, with Zahia Dehar – the call-girl (is that the right term?) in the middle of the Franck Ribery, Sidney Govou, Hatem Ben Arfa, Karim Benzema under-age sex scandal – apparently standing up for said players by writing a letter to Raymond Domenech last week, in which she encouraged the...
World Cup 2010 Squad Deadlines Announced
Remember last month I was trying a bit of educated guesswork to work out exactly when the World Cup 2010 squad deadlines were? My information came partly from FIFA documentation, and partly from things Raymond Domenech had mumbled. So not the most reliable of sources.
But today FIFA finally made the dates official. We now know...
