Benzema and Mahrez are representatives of a post-1998 French World Cup victory generation who saw captain and talisman Zidane as the figurehead of diverse French social cohesion.

Benzema s exclusion by the French federation was due to accusations of bribery and extortion by his then teammate Mathieu Valbuena. Head coach Didier Deschamps defended the decision, reiterating …

Booba, the French rapper, defends Benzema, and another video claims if Benzema were not a person of color that not singing would not have been a problem.

“At Madrid the three forwards always have freedom of movement. We can swap places and look for spaces whenever we want. If you’re out wide, you watch what the others are doing: if one player …

The third club to have trained the footballers with the most min-utes in the big-5 over the last two decades, Olympique Lyon-nais, has also developed many world-class players, such as the first on …

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific re-search documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and …

s and their fans see themselves? How does football reinforce certain ethnic, religious and social identities? Chapter 1 of the present volume, for example, opens with one of the most famous strikers …