Platini Lashes Out At Rebel French Players
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December 9, 2010, Thursday
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UEFA President Michel Platini believes the French players responsible for the World Cup fiasco should have been handed lifetime suspensions.
Platini labeled the rebel players "completely useless" and "absolute idiots" after they boycotted a training session in protest at Nicolas Anelka's expulsion from the tournament.
Anelka, who was sent home after his profanity-laced tirade against then-coach Raymond Domenech, was subsequently suspended for 18 games.
The French federation also handed suspensions to former captain Patrice Evra (five games), Franck Ribery (three) and Jeremy Toulalan (one) for their part in the boycott.
Platini told So Foot magazine he would have gone much further. "You can't mess with the French team's image," Platini said. "I would have been far tougher, I would have handed them a lifetime ban."
France was eliminated without winning a game at the World Cup, but Platini said no other coach could have achieved a better result.
"(Jose) Mourinho would not have done better than Domenech," he said. "We don't have a good team, we don't have a great generation of players."
Platini labeled the rebel players "completely useless" and "absolute idiots" after they boycotted a training session in protest at Nicolas Anelka's expulsion from the tournament.
Anelka, who was sent home after his profanity-laced tirade against then-coach Raymond Domenech, was subsequently suspended for 18 games.
The French federation also handed suspensions to former captain Patrice Evra (five games), Franck Ribery (three) and Jeremy Toulalan (one) for their part in the boycott.
Platini told So Foot magazine he would have gone much further. "You can't mess with the French team's image," Platini said. "I would have been far tougher, I would have handed them a lifetime ban."
France was eliminated without winning a game at the World Cup, but Platini said no other coach could have achieved a better result.
"(Jose) Mourinho would not have done better than Domenech," he said. "We don't have a good team, we don't have a great generation of players."
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