A year before the 2002 catastrophic World Cup of the title team holder of the title (elimination in the first round after two defeats and a draw), the Blues of Roger Lemerre won the 2001 Confederations Cup in South Korea and Japan. Without Zinedine Zidane, Thierry Henry or Fabien Barthez, they beat Brazil in the semi-finals (2-1, goals by Robert Pirès and Marcel Desailly) before dominating the Japanese in the final (1-0, goal by Patrick Vieira).
However, the French selection had lost its second group match against Australia (1-0), on June 1, 2001 in Daegu, during a nightmarish evening for Frank Lebœuf. Promoted captain for the occasion, the defender of Chelsea – associated with Zoumana Camara, Nicolas Gillet and Jérémie Bréchet in defense – completely weighed his team.
“A lost match, it never pleases. I am very angry with myself. I made mistakes. I was not allowed to drop my teammates twenty minutes from the end of the match, especially since there were a lot of young people among us. I don't forgive myself ”he then said in The Parisian.
Frank Lebœuf blocked with anti -doping control
Lebœuf first caused the full axis free kick which allowed the Socceroos to open the scoring. Grégory COUPTT deviated a free kick on his post and CLAYTON ZANE followed well (60th). A quarter of an hour later, the 98 world champion missed a tackle and received a second warning synonymous with exclusion (78th). He is one of the four players in all the tricolor history to have taken two red boxes with Yvon Le Roux, “Zizou” and Aurélien Tchouaméni after France-Island on Tuesday at the Parc des Princes.
This evening was particularly painful for Captain Frank Lebœuf since he remained blocked an hour and a half at the anti -doping control after the meeting, ” because (he couldn't Not to urinate! »» “I just had my wife on the phone, she asked me if I had not met a black cat at the entrance to the stadium”laughed at the player spent by Strasbourg and OM in addition to Chelsea.
