Atletico Madrid forward Florent Sinama-Pongolle insists it was not a mistake to join Liverpool as a youngster as it has now led to him becoming one of the top performers in the Primera Liga.

Sinama-Pongolle arrived on Merseyside from Le Havre at the age of 17 billed as one of the hottest young prospects in French football. Click to continue reading...

The new season is now a few weeks old in Europe, so I thought it was about time we had a look at the contributions of some of Argentina's foreign legion in the European leagues. So far Sergio Agüero and Gonzalo Higuaín have enjoyed great starts for the two Madrid sides in Spain, whilst in [...] Click to continue reading...

For the third time in their history the blue and white of Grenoble attained promotion to the top tier of French football. In both previous occasions they were immediately relegated. Obviously, avoiding relegation is going to be the objective for the 2008-09 campaign. With the backing of Japanese holding company Index (whose 2004 purchase of a majority share made Grenoble the first foreign-owned club in France) the club has built a new stadium - the 20,000 seat Stade des Alpes which opened in February of 2008. Click to continue reading...

"Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face." - Albert Camus.
Fabien Barthez and French writer,Nobel Prize winner and philosopher Albert Camus( who incidentally was also a goalkeeper for his university team till he contracted tuberculosis in 1930 - which put an end to his football activities) are the inspiration for a unique French Football academy that aims to instil the values of citizenship in 11-16-year-olds from around the world and from all walks of life.

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We have to go all the way back to 1872 to find the birth of Le Havre, making them the oldest club in France. However much of that early period was spent playing rugby and it wasn't until 1894 that football became the primary obsession. They are sometimes referred to as club doyen du football français - basically the old man of French football - but this is a questionable title unlikely ever to be definitely resolved due to the limited historical data from that time frame and the regularity with which clubs bounced between the different football codes. Click to continue reading...

La Gazzetta dello sport is reporting that Chelsea is awaiting the imminent arrival of Robinho from Real Madrid.With this in mind Abramovich is also offering a 100 million euros for Kaka to complete his masterpiece.

On a side note from last night i wrote that Roman Pavlyuchenko imminent arrival to Tottenhan will now free up a Dimitar Berbatov Move to Manchester United. Click to continue reading...

Since the news and rumors linking Oguchi Onyewu came out over the weekend, I've had my feelers out (and been scouring the Italian and French papers piling on my desk) to confirm them both -to no avail.

The first report linking Onyewu to Lazio came out at about 1PM (Western Europe time) on Sunday by the Lyon, France branch of Eurosport and we all did our share of speculation. Click to continue reading...

Samir Nasri has been ruled out of France's friendly with Sweden on Wednesday because of a thigh strain. The Arsenal midfielder was called into Les Bleus' squad on Monday following the withdrawal of winger Hatem Ben Arfa, who injured his adductors at the weekend. But Nasri will not board Tuesday's flight to Gothenburg, the French Football [. Click to continue reading...

On the eve of the 2008/2009 French football season this edition of Photo, Shoot brings you the idyllic, picturesque sight of the Stade Velodrome in late summer, a photo taken at Olympique Marseille's 2-0 home league defeat to Nice early last season. Photo courtesy of Olivier07 on Flickr, in Just-Football's photo pool Click to continue reading...

It's true Lyon have finally been knocked from their pedestal, and Bordeaux win 5 - 4 on penalties, the first Cup of the season and the first Girondins' Super Cup victory since 1987.  Lyon having won the Super Cup 6 years running makes this a huge change of scenery for French Football. Bordeaux started the shoot [. Click to continue reading...

Bordeax took the 2008 French Super Cup (the Trophée des Champions) by beating Lyon on penalties after a 0-0 draw. The match is the annual curtain-raiser for the French football season, contested between the previous season's league champion and cup winner. As Lyon did the double last season, Bordeaux were their opponents as second-placed finishers in the league. Click to continue reading...

We didn't think the start of the season could come soon enough, but it's finally here! Tomorrow is the Trophée des champions (French Supercup), the traditional opener to the Ligue 1 season.

To get back into the right frame of mind, here is a great compilation recapping the previous year (download the high quality version here).

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Dal Paris Saint Germain, i reds hanno prelevato ufficialmente l'attaccante David Ngog, che ha firmato un quadriennale. E' il cugino dell'ex bianconero Jean-Alain Boumsong.

Da Calciomercato.com

Comunicato Ufficiale Liverpool:

REDS SIGN FRENCH STRIKER NGOG

Liverpool have today signed French hotshot David Ngog from Paris Saint Germain. Click to continue reading...

According to French Football Magazine "L´Equipe" Spanish Football players FERNANDO TORRES & IKER CASILLAS are firm favourites for this years FRANCE FOOTBALL GOLDEN BALL AWARD ( Best World Player... Read all the news, results, details & comments in English on Spanish Football & Sports Click to continue reading...

This is not my opinion. This is the view of "top French football boss" Michel Moulin. The former Paris St-Germain director of sport believes that Wenger is over hyped and and is a failure.

This dumbass has criticised Le Boss for not winning the Champions League in his time at Arsenal and that many other coaches would have won far more trophies armed with Le Bosse's transfer budget. Click to continue reading...

Marseille are looking to seal a €12million (£9.5million) deal for a Lyon star who was heralded as the future of French football, along with team-mate Karim Benzema, only 4 months ago. Reports suggested that Premiership teams like Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester United had been tracking the player, but with this "sideways" move to Marseille on [. Click to continue reading...

FIFA head honcho Sepp Blatter met with several French football figures this week. The topic? Sepp's controversial 6+5 proposal. The result? Overwhelming French support. FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter held very productive meetings regarding "6+5″ with French sports minister Bernard Laporte and a delegation representing FIFPro at the Home of FIFA in [. Click to continue reading...

With the absence of Lio Messi and Gaby Milito from Barcelona's lineup against Real Murcia, and Inter's Serie A campaign not re-starting until tomorrow, it was left to England and France to provide the main stories for Argentina's foreign legion on Saturday. Carlos Tevez carried on his stellar form for Manchester United, whilst Fernando Cavenaghi [. Click to continue reading...

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