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Former French player Patrice Evra revealed in an interview with RMC Sport p art of the mutiny scandal experienced by the France team and Nikolas Anelka with coach Raymond Domenech during the World Cup in South Africa 2010.
It all started after Domenech, coach of the French national team In said World Cup, he took Anelka off the field after the striker refused to listen to an address from Domenech.
“ Nick, what did I tell you? Stop going down to look for the ball. Nico (Anelka) is tying his laces, not even looking, and says: “Fuck off with your team, if that’s the problem, I don’t play”. Domenech didn’t even listen to him. I told Nico to put his boots back on. I managed to convince him, Nico puts his shoes back on. And Domenech says, “No, Gignac is getting hot, he’s dead.” We return to the second part lost. Nico felt attacked”, said Evra.
After that match, Evra asked for a meeting between Anelka and Domenech to fix things between the two and return to a good atmosphere in the team, but Domenech decided not to the meeting.
“I went to Nico’s room to convince him. I ask where the coach is. They tell me they can’t find it. It is as if it has disappeared. In my head I tell myself that Nico is going to change his mind. And then I go upstairs and I see the coach so calm with Jean-Pierre Escalettes. They are laughing. I tell the coach that we have been waiting for him for an hour and that Nico is ready to apologize. The coach told me: “It’s late, it’s over. Upstairs is the President of the Republic”, said the former Manchester United defender. got off the bus for training for the last game of the group stage where they were eliminated, after having been runners-up in 2006.
“I didn’t tell him we weren’t going to train. We get off, go check on the kids, regroup, and head back to the bus. The driver starts. And there Raymond sends someone to take the keys from the driver and confiscate them. We couldn’t go home. Raymond got on the bus afterwards saying, “Do you want to be kids? Well, they are going to sink”, he concluded.
After the problems of the national team, Domenech was fired and Anelka was no longer called up to the team national.
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