Comments on: World Cup 2006: France qualifies http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/world-cup-2006-france-qualifies/ Notes from an unfinished world… Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pierre Igot http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/world-cup-2006-france-qualifies/comment-page-1/#comment-3323 Pierre Igot Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:00:44 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/world-cup-2006-france-qualifies/#comment-3323 They had more than their share of rather humiliating moments in this qualifying process—although by the sound of it, Switzerland fully deserved their draw last week. (I didn't see that game.) Humility is a good thing, which the generation of World Cup 98 and Euro 2000 winners lacked for a while. Hopefully they have now come down to earth and will fight to reestablish their authority. One should remember that the eventual World Cup winners of 2002 (Brazil) only qualified for that competition after a few rather embarrassing results in South America too… They had more than their share of rather humiliating moments in this qualifying process—although by the sound of it, Switzerland fully deserved their draw last week. (I didn’t see that game.) Humility is a good thing, which the generation of World Cup 98 and Euro 2000 winners lacked for a while. Hopefully they have now come down to earth and will fight to reestablish their authority.

One should remember that the eventual World Cup winners of 2002 (Brazil) only qualified for that competition after a few rather embarrassing results in South America too…

]]> By: Olivier http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/world-cup-2006-france-qualifies/comment-page-1/#comment-3322 Olivier Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:39:04 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2005/10/13/world-cup-2006-france-qualifies/#comment-3322 Their tie against Switzerland is quite humiliating ;-) Their tie against Switzerland is quite humiliating ;-)

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