Between Nicolas Anelka and France, life has never been a long, quiet river. First in club, at Paris Saint-Germain, which he left the first time in a conflictual way, to join Arsenal during the 1996-1997 fiscal year. Before returning to it in superstar during the summer of 2000. Losing return.
During his career, the attacker then never replayed in Ligue 1 again. “I haven't lived in France for a long time and I even spent more than half of my life outside French territory. So, I do not ask any respect from the French or France ”he said during an interview given to Eleven global.
Anelka and the Blues, chaotic idyll
Nicolas Anelka does not however hate his native country, he who was born at Chesnay, a town in Yvelines, 45 years ago.
“I was born in France, it is an extraordinary country. I have the French passport, I am French. But we do not meet on the mentality “concludes the one who put an end to his career in 2015.
Selected 69 times in the French team between 1998 and 2010 (14 goals scored), the winner of Euro 2000 experienced a chaotic history with the Blues. Located by Jacques Santini in 2003, he was then at the heart of Knysna's fiasco, during the World Cup in South Africa.