This is one of the many episodes that brought the French team ever lower. Until the biggest scandal in the history of French sport. It should first be remembered that Raymond Domenech is the biggest person responsible for this fiasco in global television. The Blues coach, challenged since an already distressing Euro 2008, has created a deleterious atmosphere around the selection. To vomit. Internally, he also shattered the group by naming Patrice Evra captain at the expense of William Gallas.
In the Netflix documentary on the Knysna strike (The bus: the Blues on strikeavailable on May 13 on the platform), we will thus discover Domenech, Evra and Gallas returning to this episode. “ There I’m going to be captain. It’s me ! What do you want me to tell you? »thus launches the central defender, defensive rock of the team at the 2006 World Cup and Euro 2008. With the retirement of Lilian Thuram in 2008 and a Thierry Henry no longer necessarily a holder, Gallas should logically have regained the captaincy.
Evra immediately understood about Gallas
However, the coach with the mustache formalizes the promotion of Patrice Evra before the World Cup in South Africa. “When Domenech tells me that I’m going to be captain, at that moment, I didn’t even think about being happy, I thought of William Gallas, straight away in my head, William Gallas will think that I’ve done him wrong”thus launches Evra in the Netflix film, he who was a leader of the group (but not necessarily very close to Gallas, four years older than him). The left-back will only be one of Manchester United’s vice-captains from 2011.
Patrice Evra had already confirmed, during an appearance on RMC, that the choice of Raymond Domenech had disrupted the life of the group: “Nicolas Anelka knows that William shunned the entire course. At one point, I went to see him in his room and told him to go see the coach to get his armband back because I didn’t want it. I didn’t want to do him the wrong way. William sulked so much that Domenech even wanted to exclude him, saying: ‘If you continue to act like that, I’ll kick you out of the group.’ But I also understand William, the coach didn’t even speak to him. That was already a big problem. » We know the rest.
