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...millions of fans who will watch the World Cup from around the globe, football is also more than a mere game. After all, a football team is a vessel for a nation's habits and aspirations, psychoses and strengths, triumphs and disappointments. Brazil's beautiful game. France's Les Bleus. Italy's Azurri. Nigeria's Super Eagles. They are more than teams. They are 11-man embodiments of national pride and passion. And yet the World Cup may be the only medium where national pride can be flagrantly, vividly manifest without diplomats being recalled and troops mobilized. The Cup will...
...Italy's Serie A, to follow the progress of David Trezeguet, Lilian Thuram and Vincent Candela. Then there's Spain's Primera Liga, which includes maestro Zinedine Zidane, Claude Makelele and Philippe Christanval. Oh. And don't forget the German Bundesliga, home of Bixente Lizarazu and Youri Djorkaeff. Les Bleus, as the French national team is commonly known, are scattered across Europe's best leagues. Keeping the first-XI regulars company in foreign lands are a phalanx of up-and-comers that, by common consent among the game's pundits, represent the most powerful force in modern football...
...Other European leagues aren't as keen as England on French coaches, but the Gallic touch is finding takers farther afield. Claude Le Roy, who coached Cameroon's 1998 World Cup side, has signed on at Shanghai's Cosco, while Manuel Amoros, who collected 82 caps with les Bleus, has taken the helm at the Tunisian club Sfax. If the foursome at the World Cup draw good performances from their teams, the football factory may find orders for its by-products mirroring the demand for its main export...
...surprised if Jacques Chirac obliges. The French president has already gotten a 15 percent boost in the polls out of France's progress to the final; presenting the trophy to Les Bleus while wrapped self-consciously in a soccer scarf will no doubt bring Chirac even greater political gain. He shouldn't, therefore, be too worried that crowds are already calling for Zinedine "Zizou" Zidane, the striker who scored two of France's goals, to be elected president. That will be far more troubling to Jean-Marie Le Pen: The fact that a whole nation is cheering...
...home for wayward girls and eventually escapes to take up residence in a Spanish bordello. French Porno Film Maker Jean-François Davy's latest flick, Exhibition, is the real-life story of its star, Claudine Beccarie, 30, who has already appeared in 44 other French Films Bleus. "I have no inhibitions," says Beccarie, a shapely brunette whose preferences include bisexuality and gourmet cooking in the nude. (Neighbors stop by frequently to borrow sugar.) Exhibition, a box office sensation in Paris, had its U.S. premiere last week at the New York Film Festival. The porno queen herself flew...