Patrice Evra and France team already play a very big Friday for their entry into the World Cup against Uruguay. (EQ)
Patrice Evra could not be better to summarize. "The hour of truth" has arrived for the France team. After two years of hard, we'll know, she'll know if 2010 can be in line with the 1998 and 2006. Both editions share the few certainties surrounding the Blues before they enter the competition. From this point of view here, which begins on Friday, the first on the African continent, has nothing to envy its predecessors. Qualified for the World Cup in extremis after suffering endured in 1000 which was grafted the controversy around the hand of Thierry Henry against Ireland in dams, Raymond Domenech's players are here, there and anywhere is that 'they "deserve". No less so than "the other 31 teams" operating in South Africa, "said coach Thursday night.
For two years, and the resounding failure of the Euro 2008, the difficulty seems to have become the fellow sufferer of the Blues. There have been a glimmer of hope embodied by the introduction of 4-3-3 and the service delivered against Costa Rica. It faded too fast to re-site to the doubts and anxiety. Tunisia, and especially China have been through this ... "Because China before, everyone believed in us," ironically called Evra a news conference. Only now, "said a colleague. "Oh? I do not know what is said in the media. For me, nothing has changed. It does obviously not happy to lose against China, but more importantly, Uruguay. We can not fully prove him wrong.
Even in the storm, there seems to be on this team the belief that "everything is possible". Including see defeat the odds to "go after". In view of what showed up the Blues, the objective appears excessive, grotesque limits. Yet "it was really something to play, provides Evra. It is serene, one has confidence in us. " The new captain of the France team is based on the "mindset" that drives the group to justify these remarks. "The guys are united, welded ... We're here to win together, not everyone on our side. " But to point out, lucid: "If we're not going to last, we can always talk about the state of mind, we will say that was invalid because it did not win." The first game against Uruguay should set the tone. Having said so much, it's time to play
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