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June 25, 2010
Posted: 1530 GMT
![]() Media reaction has been fierce after France exited the World Cup at the group stages (AFP/Getty) The world watched with awe and derision this past week as the French national soccer team, boasting a roster of star players, imploded on and off the field at the World Cup. In case you missed it, here's the play-by-play. At half-time during the France-Mexico game, striker Nicolas Anelka insulted French coach Raymond Domenech in the locker room. Such words, of course, are heard frequently in the half-time locker rooms of losing teams the world over - though not so often spoken to a coach's face. They don't, however, usually decorate the covers of newspapers. Read the rest of this entry >> Posted by: Laurent Dubois, Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University
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