Franck Ribery could have played at the World Cup if he wasn’t afraid of injections, the France team’s doctor Franck Le Gall claimed Thursday. A week ago Bayern Munich star Ribery pulled out of the World Cup due to a back injury that virtually stopped…
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Tottenham’s veteran goalkeeper Brad Friedel signed a new one-year contract with the Premier League club on Monday. Friedel, 43, moved to White Hart Lane from Aston Villa on a free transfer in 2011 and has often been used as back-up for France goalkeeper…
Anti-racism campaigners reacted with outrage on Sunday to an apparent anti-Semitic pun by France’s former far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen that even his own party and daughter were quick to criticise. SOS Racisme denounced as “the most anti-Semitic…
Team Sky chief David Brailsford on Sunday insisted he has yet to decide on his Tour de France squad despite claims from former champion Bradley Wiggins that he will not be selected. Wiggins won the Tour in 2012 but doesn’t expect to ride alongside team…
Coach Philippe Saint-Andre on Sunday forecast team changes as France seek to keep their three-Test series alive against the Wallabies in Melbourne next weekend. Les Bleus were outclassed by a rampant Australia 50-23 in the opening Test in Brisbane on…
An 89-year-old veteran who ran away from his care home to join the D-Day commemorations in France returned to Britain Saturday, hailed as the embodiment of World War II fighting spirit. Bernard Jordan said he had no regrets after slipping out of The…
Britain’s Bradley Wiggins, the 2012 Tour de France winner, said Friday that he was “gutted” not to be selected for Team Sky to compete in this year’s race. Wiggins told BBC television that he would not take part in the race he became the first British…
France striker Karim Benzema said Friday he has no regrets risking his World Cup place by playing for Real Madrid in their Champions League final triumph. “It was not a mistake to play and I would do it again,” Benzema, who only attended his first full…
Mehdi Nemmouche, the French Islamist arrested on suspicion of a triple murder at the Brussels Jewish Museum, is to contest being handed over by France to Belgium, his lawyer said Wednesday. Nemmouche was arrested in Marseille on Friday. He wants to…
France coach Didier Deschamps said Wednesday that he had set star winger Franck Ribery, who is suffering from a back problem, a target of returning for Sunday’s friendly against Jamaica. However, Deschamps denied this weekend’s final pre-World Cup warm…