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The entire World Cup squad was suspended for their next game against Norway by the FFF, upon request by the new manager Laurent Blanc. [46] Five players were identified as having been key to the embarrassing events at the tournament; Nicolas Anelka , Patrice Evra , Franck Ribéry , Jérémy Toulalan and Eric Abidal were summoned to a hearing ...
The Zahia affair is a series of legal proceedings that took place in France starting from 2010, involving several players of the French football team and Zahia Dehar, a former prostitute, who was a minor at the time she was solicited for sex. The affair received significant attention in the French media.
U.S. Senator Dan Coats wrote to Sepp Blatter requesting that Russia be barred from the 2018 World Cup due to its annexation of Crimea. The annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in 2014 led to several British and American politicians calling on FIFA to overturn its decision of hosting the 2018 World Cup in Russia — British Shadow Secretary of State for Health Andy Burnham said that ...
France won just one of its six 2022 World Cup warmup games. Yet those results are the least of its problems. France’s World Cup title defense is already a chaotic, snowballing mess [Video]
1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA–CONMEBOL play-off) ... 2009 Republic of Ireland v France football matches; L. List of 2022 FIFA World Cup controversies; M.
The French football bribery scandal (French: Affaire VA-OM) occurred during a 1992–93 French Division 1 match between Valenciennes and Olympique de Marseille.Marseille president Bernard Tapie and general manager Jean-Pierre Bernès contacted Valenciennes players Jorge Burruchaga, Jacques Glassmann, and Christophe Robert through Marseille player Jean-Jacques Eydelie, who asked them to ...
The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil generated various controversies, including demonstrations, some of which took place even before the tournament started. Most centred on officiating, with referees coming under criticism for their performances. Furthermore, there were various issues with safety, including eight deaths of workers and a fire during construction, breaches into stadiums, an ...
A political cartoon depicting slave labour in the construction of the stadiums in Qatar ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup [7] (see also: Slavery in Qatar). In a December 2021 interview with Al Jazeera, FIFA's secretary-general Fatma Samoura said that FIFA had developed a general framework to structure and guide the implementation of its human rights responsibilities and commitment, published in ...