Tuesday, March 29, 2011

European Championship Qualifying: The Return of the rebels uncomfortable Ribery

Franck Ribery had his first painful encounter at the Stade de France on Sunday. In football, tennis star of the failed Bayern Munich's header, Ribery stumbled and fell - and fell into a barrier fence. Ribery was inconsequential for the mishap a foretaste of what awaits him in the match with the French national football team against Croatia.

Then it gets really painful. At least for the sensitive psyche of the Kickers. "I think there will be whistles," Ribery said before his first appearance before a home crowd for ten months. Between the match on 26 May in Lens against Costa Rica and the friendly against Croatia on Tuesday was the disastrous World Cup in South Africa from a French perspective.

Ribery was doing out there as a rebel, he led the mutiny against the then national coach Raymond Domenech with. He was expelled from the circle of the Bleus, until he could return on Saturday in the painstaking 2-0 victory in the European Championship qualifiers in Luxembourg. Many of the traveling fans booed him and also pardoned with "traitor" from Patrice Evra.

In St. Denis wait now 80,000, to prepare the ringleaders of the most shameful, according to many French team that had the grande nation ever, the fitting reception. "It will happen," Ribery said of the expected gauntlet, "but I have to accept and continue." For Ribery would be the 50th Match and "something very special," he assures.

In the run he has done much to the transformation from Saul to Paul, it relies. He has apologized, admitted mistakes and expressed his support to the team mate Yoann Gourcuff, with whom he had clashed violently at the World Cup. But not all fans take Ribery from the reversal. In the Internet forums of newspapers and trade journals are full of nasty insults to the professionals, "the French have spotted the jersey." Some supporters are calling for the Equipe Tricolore coach Laurent Blanc to boycott as long as Evra Ribery and members of the team.

In a survey by the newspaper Le Parisien showed 72.4 percent of the participants "shocked" because of the return of the mutineers. Blanc speculate, some knowledgeable observers might feel forced, therefore, Evra and Ribery first to sit on the bench. For Evra could defend Ga l Clichy, a castling Ribery in midfield fall victim to look something like this: Jeremy Menez pure forward Gourcuff, Samir Nasri from center to right for Ribery and Florent Malouda from right to left.

On the unpopular right-hand, many experts think anyway for Ribery wasted. Either way - the reception for the insurgents is uncomfortable, which also believes Evra. "There will be booed," he says, and adds little diplomatically. "But those who whistle are the first ones to do after the game my jersey," How to deal easily with open hostility, lives off Croatia coach Slaven Bilic .

Who have the French after 13 years that he has brought Blanc for participation in the World Cup final 1998th Blanc then saw red for an elbow attack Bilic also expected on Tuesday whistles. "If they want to hate me," he said laconically: "No problem!"

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