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04-07.-2008, 06:21 AM
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The lead story in today's L'Equipe? It's not the Tour
The Tour is just two days away...and the #1 story is football?
WTF? Take a look: http://www.cycleto.com/index.php?op...=article&id=325 |
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04-07.-2008, 06:52 AM
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Re: The lead story in today's L'Equipe? It's not the Tour
Not surprising. Domenech is the trainer of the French national team and he was reconfirmed despite a dismal showing at the European championships. It is actually very big news here in the Old World.
The same happened a week ago here in Italy - we canned the coach who accomplished little in the European Championships, and it was all over the papers.
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04-07.-2008, 07:00 AM
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Re: The lead story in today's L'Equipe? It's not the Tour
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Don't forget l'Equipe is a daily paper with...hehe...daily news. |
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04-07.-2008, 06:23 PM
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Re: The lead story in today's L'Equipe? It's not the Tour
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Donnadoni's removal from the Italia job has increased speculation that our newly appointed national coach, Giovanni Trappatoni, may be approached by the Italian federation. Sign of the times when L'Equipe doesn't feature LeTour as front page news.
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04-07.-2008, 07:00 PM
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Re: The lead story in today's L'Equipe? It's not the Tour
France won the world cup in 1998 and the european cup in 2000. They then finished as runners up in the world cup two years ago but a few weeks ago went out in an embarassing way in the group stages of euro 2008. IMO football (soccer:rolleyes
 has grown in importance to the french - keeping on a coach who it could be said has done so poorly and let everyone down is therefore going to be big news. |
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04-07.-2008, 07:05 PM
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Re: The lead story in today's L'Equipe? It's not the Tour
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By the way, the Int'l Herald Tribune is opening with an article on the TdF today.
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04-07.-2008, 07:06 PM
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Re: The lead story in today's L'Equipe? It's not the Tour
Our local paper wrote a small story about Tour de France today. They DID name Cadel Evans as the favourite, BUT they said that his main rivals were Valverde and PEREIRO
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04-07.-2008, 11:01 PM
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Re: The lead story in today's L'Equipe? It's not the Tour
Well not much on the Gazzetta site either. They have a special on what team Ronaldo will play for next year, and about the Massa's crash (Ferrari F1 driver for the yanks).
Have to go to the cycling section for an article on the TdF presentation. 
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04-07.-2008, 11:12 PM
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Re: The lead story in today's L'Equipe? It's not the Tour
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Marcello Lippi's a good choice for manager. After all he did a superb job at 2006 world cup.
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04-07.-2008, 11:38 PM
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04-07.-2008, 11:43 PM
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Re: The lead story in today's L'Equipe? It's not the Tour
of the bunch, the one i'd keep an eye on is guus hiddink. seems to know how to get his side ready no matter where he coaches. why the dutch turned their noses up to him still amazes me.
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04-07.-2008, 11:45 PM
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Re: The lead story in today's L'Equipe? It's not the Tour
I think Hiddink kind of enjoys training 'lesser' national teams and getting away with the upsets he usually has (Korea beating Italy, Russia beating the Netherlands, etc).
I wonder if he would enjoy coaching an 'established' national team - kind of similar to Capello's disinterest in coaching Italy (or at least, that is what he says).
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04-07.-2008, 11:47 PM
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04-07.-2008, 11:48 PM
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04-07.-2008, 11:49 PM
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Re: The lead story in today's L'Equipe? It's not the Tour
given his career path, probably not. looks like he's the next bora. probably nets him a healthy income without having to bear the burden of a nation's hopes where failure is more common than getting to the top of the heap. i'm really just giving vent to my disappointment that the orange cannot grab a trophy of any note.
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