[Jacques_Terrac]

ok my wishes for the squad on friday is that there is place for Eric Carriére!!!

NO place for dirtbag Karmebeu.....


my final squad:

Fabien Barthez
Ulrich Ramé
Grégory Coupet

Bixente Lizarazu
Vincent Candela
Lilian Thuram
Marcel Desailly (c)
Willy Sagnol
Mikaël Silvestre
Frank Leboeuf

Zinedine Zidane
Emmanuel Petit
Patrick Vieira
Eric Carriére
Claude Makélélé
Johan Micoud
Youri Djorkaeff
Laurent Robert

Thierry Henry
Sylvain Wiltord
Christophe Dugarry
David Trézéguet
Nicolas Anelka

this squad is perfect! I leave players like Mexés, Cissé and Landreau to play this U21 Euro this summer.

 

[Mohammad]

Really

it is a perfect squad, but it lack Christinival, he is a great defender in france team, and i think that leboef is weak this days, and iam sure that Chris will take his place...and i will pick:

----------------------------Rame

Thuram--------------Dessailly--------chris----------Liz

----------robert----------Viera---------------Djor

---------------------------Zizou---

-------------------Henry or Anelka---------------Trezeguet

 

[Steph!]

l'équipe
Djibril Cissé appelé à Tignes

Le sélectionneur national Roger Lemerre a livré, mardi, une liste de huit joueurs qui participeront au stage de Tignes avec l'équipe de France du 6 au 10 mai prochain. Un invité de dernière minute : l'attaquant d'Auxerre Djibril Cissé.

Les sept autres joueurs retenus sont Vincent Candela (AS Roma), Grégory Coupet (Lyon), Christophe Dugarry (Bordeaux), Frank Leboeuf (Marseille), Bixente Lizarazu (Bayern Munich), Ulrich Ramé (Bordeaux) et Willy Sagnol (Bayern Munich).

Soit huit joueurs qui ne seront plus concernés par la moindre compétition en club. En revanche, les joueurs français évoluant en Angleterre et en Espagne notamment n'ont pas été appelés.

La désignation de Grégory Coupet laisse entendre qu'il pourrait être le troisième gardien à la Coupe du monde, derrière Fabien Barthez et Ulrich Ramé. Un choix qui écarterait Lionel Letizi (Paris SG) et Mickaël Landreau (Nantes).

La présence de Djibril Cissé ajoute un peu plus de suspense autour des attaquants qui accompagneront vraisemblablement Thierry Henry et David Trezeguet en Asie. Mais Roger Lemerre n'a fait aucun commentaire sur cette liste. Lors de l'Euro 2000, il avait fait appel à Philippe Christanval, en précisant bien qu'il avait peu de chances d'être retenu.

Enfin, parmi les joueurs libres, qui auraient pu être appelés, figure notamment Eric Carrière, blessé. Un choix qui compromet les chances du Lyonnais d'être présent avec les Bleus au mois de juin prochain.

OK here is my pick...

Goalkeepers
Barthez - Ramé - Coupet

Defenders
Thuram - Leboeuf - Desailly - Lizarazu
Sagnol - Chistanval - Silvestre - Candela

Midfielders
Viera - Zidane - Petit
Makalele - Djorkaeff - Micoud

Support Strikers/Forwards
Henry - Wiltord - Dugarry - Cissé
Trézéguet - Anelka


PS - I agree with Leboeuf's remark although it's not the U21 team since Landreau is 22. C'est l'équipe Espoirs.

PPS - Emperor, the French NT plays in 4-5-1

 

[John Barnes]

There is nothing particularly wrong with that squad,except maybe a little room for improvement in defence.When Christanval got his move to Barca,i thought this is a great chance to prove himself on a BIG stage,but he has not been as good as perhaps he should've been...at least not yet.Although there is no mention of him,and so he has no chance for this WC,i have seen Gallas play for Chelsea many times this season - he first impressed me when @ OM - and he has been consistent all the way through,and unlike say Leboeuf he can run quite fast,and is good in the air.The 2nd centre-back spot is the only potential weakness i can see for France.Desailly will of course start,but the decision as to who will partner him needs to be made soon IMO.Oh,and i hope Micoud gets a chance to remind us of his talent too.

 

[Guest]

here is mine :

coupet


thuram mexes desailly liza


viera

makelele petit

zidane


henri

trézéguet


i have to say, vieira will be the most incredible player of the planet soon

 

[Carson35]

Anelka Out Of World Cup
News Archive

The Frenchman will miss out on his second straight World Cup (Allsport)
05/02/2002. Liverpool striker Nicolas Anelka will not be travelling with the France squad to the World Cup.

Roger Lemerre apparently decided to break the news to the former Arsenal star himself, when he briefly stated the reasons behind his decision.

It is thought that Anelka's poor display in his country's recent match with Russia was a major factor in the decision. The 23-year-old was jeered off the pitch by certain sections of France's 80,000 strong support.

soccerage

 

[CUG]

looking at your sqauds, i noticed that france lacks wingers. i know that candela plays a whole wing but he cant play both. liza is good, but seriously, they are defenders.

i would like to see dalmat in, at least to replace pires. and why havent any of you chosen lamouchi???

rame
thuram christ desailly lizaruzu
------------vieira-----------
dalmat-------------------candela

---------------ZZ---------

-----trez------------henry----

but if there are injuries to candela, liz, thuram, you havent got great replacements.

 

[Steph!]

CUG:

PPS - Emperor, the French NT plays in 4-5-1