World Cup stunning moments: France implode in South Africa | Philippe Auclair
In open rebellion against their manager, France’s 2010 squad self-destructed as Thierry Henry watched impassivelyThierry Henry had more pressing matters to attend to before he could lose himself in his New York dreamscape [he was joining New York Red Bulls from Barcelona in the summer 2010], starting with his uneasy position within the French national team. How uneasy it was was demonstrated in the lead-up to the South African World Cup, when Raymond Domenech chose to play Henry from the bench in France’s warm-up games against Costa Rica and Tunisia, in which the hitherto “captain for life” was a mere passenger.In the first of these two encounters, in which Les Bleus actually showed a surprising degree of enterprise and imagination,...