Jacques Santini
Jacques Santini
Jacques Santiniis a former football player and manager. He played for Saint-Étienne during the 1970s, and reached the European Cup final with them in 1976. He has coached the French national team - winning the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup and reaching the quarter-finals of Euro 2004 - and clubs including Olympique Lyonnais...
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There will always be leaders in this team to show us the way.
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There were recruitment problems. Perhaps it had not been thought through at the start who was going to deal with recruitment. I thought it was me.
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Of course we were disappointed because we were planning to rest some of our players for the third match,
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I sensed there was a lack of confidence, they were tense,
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The French group is caught up in these contradictory opinions, some of them surprising as they come from the inside, and has been weakened before this exciting and crucial competition -- Euro 2004,
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The first few minutes of tomorrow's game are crucial, ... The decision is based on a couple of training sessions, looking at vivacity and speed.
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And in the first four minutes of the second-half, he created a lot of opportunities for himself.