Archive for category: FC Lorient

Ligue 1 Highlights: Week 37

Ligue 1 Highlights: Week 37

These clips are available to all viewers in Europe (except France & Spain), Sub Saharan Africa and Australasia. Excluded in North Africa, Asia and N&S America. WEEK 37 Sunday 19th May NICE v LYON Saturday 18th May ST-ETIENNE v MARSEILLE PSG v BREST SOCHAUX v TOULOUSE RENNES v AJACCIO MONTPELLIER [...]

Coupe de France Semi-Finals Preview / Weather Round-Up

Coupe de France Semi-Finals Preview / Weather Round-Up

The magic of the cup is still with us, people. Two sides who could well go down to Ligue 2 at the end of the season are still in the race for silverware, and a place in the Europa League; 19th play 9th, and 18th play 8th, which has a [...]

Out of Les Bleus: Aliadiere is ready to hit the international stage

Out of Les Bleus: Aliadiere is ready to hit the international stage

Ligue 1 has witnessed a number of remarkable feats in recent history, not least Montpellier’s highly unlikely title win last season. But this year Le Championnat has witnessed something almost, if not more, unlikely than La Paillade’s success. In western France one previously forgotten figure, a perennial underdog in the [...]

Coupe de France Quarter-Finals: Previews

Coupe de France Quarter-Finals: Previews

The Magic of the Cup took a bit of a knock in the last round, as only Lens remain as representatives of football outside Ligue 1. The last three amateur sides in the competition exited in the last round, so we will not see the like of last year’s final [...]

Ligue 1 Highlights: Week 32

Ligue 1 Highlights: Week 32

These clips are available to all viewers in Europe (except France & Spain), Sub Saharan Africa and Australasia. Excluded in North Africa, Asia and N&S America. WEEK 32 Sunday 14 April LYON v TOULOUSE NICE v SOCHAUX LILLE v MARSEILLE Saturday 13 April EVIAN v RENNES BORDEAUX v MONTPELLIER LORIENT [...]

FC Lorient – a new space for Le jeu a la Lorientaise

FC Lorient – a new space for Le jeu a la Lorientaise

When it comes to footballing academies across Europe we think about the Barcelona academy, the Ajax academy, the Sporting Lisbon academy, and when thinking about academies in France we think about Clairefontaine. Clairefontaine is known as the national institution for football in France and it has been the starting place [...]

Le50 – 2013: The Best Young Players In France

Le50 – 2013: The Best Young Players In France

Welcome to the 2nd edition of Le50. This is a collection of the best young footballers currently playing in France – all the players featured were born on or after the 1st of January 1991. The French Football Weekly team have spent the last few months deliberating and voting on [...]

Sensible moves within Ligue 1 the way forward

Sensible moves within Ligue 1 the way forward

Now that the transfer window has finally slammed shut and we can concentrate on matters on the pitch, Matthew Richards looks at the business done within Ligue 1 in the last month, and it’s not all doom and gloom. The January transfer window was its usual manic self; rumours, agents, ‘Arry [...]