The 2010 World Cup remains an indelible stain for French football. Arrived in South Africa with great ambitions, the Blues are finally eliminated there from the group phase without having won the slightest match. Above all, while Nicolas Anelka is excluded from the group for supposed insults against Raymond Domenech, the players of the French team go on strike and refuse to train, remaining locked up on their bus.
Knysna's fiasco has retained its gray areas for fifteen years. Mysteries that the documentary made by Netflix could lighten. This is the feeling of Raymond Domenech, one of the main actors in this drama. “You are going to be surprised, there are finally people who speak, he said in the columns of
Picard mail. Even for those who read my book (all alone, note), where I had told what had happened from my point of view, there will be interesting things to discover. I have always given the truth, at least my vision of truth. We will finally know that of other protagonists. »»
Knysna obscured by supporters
By his own admission, the former tricolor coach hesitated for a long time before agreeing to participate in the documentary.
“Yes, I thought about a thousand times. My children advised it to me because they didn't want to hear again, he explained. It was not as simple. Even if I don't care today because I’ve been out for a long time. »»
According to Knysna's fiasco is rarely mentioned by supporters of the French team who come to meet them. “In the street or when I'm at the restaurant, people tell me about the 2006 World Cup final, not what happened in 2010, he said. They tell me “you should have won it”. Me, I have no regrets because we had done everything you needed to succeed. Afterwards, the circumstances, the match facts make it not turn in the right direction. »»
