Sentences with phrase «french national side»

Alexandre Lacazette thinks the French national side have the ingredients to go all the way in the 2018 World Cup in Russia next summer.

A call - up to the French national side, followed by a goal on his debut for Les Bleus against Russia, has only made a breakthrough season all the more exciting for the Parisien.

At 20 years of age he has played a total of seven games with the French national side alongside Barça players Samuel Umtiti and Lucas Digne.

I began hoping any French National side would lose.

Growing into a key player for a side like Chelsea and the French national side, it seems likely this will develop.

Grenier has three caps for the senior French national side after his breakthrough last season, and has been compared to Brazil and AC Milan star Kaka in his style of play.

His good performances have also earned him 11 run - outs for the French national side.

Arsenal forward Olivier Giroud accepts the criticism that is currently being leveled at him by fans of the French national side.

The 6» 3 ″ enforcer has improved so much since leaving Stoke for La Liga that he has even broken into the French national side, so Wenger would have been studying his form intently.

France National Team: Henry scored 51 goals in 123 appearances for Les Bleus — only Lilian Thuram has more caps with the French national side.

This is brilliant news for Arsenal fans, but it may not be so welcomed by Olivier Giroud, who is a direct rival for the centre - forward spot in the French national side.

The Frenchman is often regarded as one of the finest talents in world football and has spearheaded both Atletico Madrid and the French national side in recent years to established both teams as two of the greatest sides in club and world football.

Not exact matches

A few months down the line we had in fact signed him, a French striker, with little international exposure by way of appearances with the national French side at the time.

Now... Start of the season we let go of Sagna and Vermaelan and brought in the French international FB Debuchy who actually kept Sagna out of the national side and Chambers as a promising youngster and a utility.

Cantona was eventually fined # 20,000 and banned from playing for Manchester United for nine months, stripped of his captaincy of the French national team, as well as losing his place in the side.

The French midfielder was instrumental for his national side in the game, scoring the winning goal as they defeated Finland 1 - 0 in Helsinki and his performance led his national boss to hail the «completeness» of the player in what was a successful return after a long injury spell last campaign, according to Sky Sports.

Keep him, move on, and ask him to politely turn down his national side if they come calling since he seems to walk into the French team when he's fit.

For the best part of two decades, French club sides and the national federation have whined long and loud about overseas outfits stealing their best young talent.

They will perhaps not be too happy to hear that parts of the French media are already highlighting what good news this is for the national side.

French defender Aymeric Laporte is aiming to earn a maiden call - up to the France national side following his Premier League switch.

According to Telefoot, both Olympique Marseille and Manchester City are interested in signing Laurent Koscileny from Arsenal, with the French side keen on signing players from the French national team.

• Upamecano and Marseille's Maxime Lopez are current team - mates for the French national Under - 21 side, while Bruma (Leipzig) and Rolando (Marseille) are both full Portuguese internationals.

Especially as the competition between national schools of abstract painting escalated, breaking out in arguments and even punches in the case of Kline and the French painter Jean Fautrier, it would follow that the internal competition within these national schools also intensified.27 This was certainly true on the French side at the Venice Biennale: in a very unusual move, two artists — Fautrier and Hans Hartung — were awarded Grand Prizes in painting, whereas normally only one was given, because the jury could not decide between the two contenders.28 Within the context of the politics internal to the movement of abstract expressionism, Meryon could thus be seen as a reassertion of Kline's original, breakthrough style as his own and thus a defence of his personal artistic identity, after Kline himself had turned to colour, around 1955, and left it up for grabs.