France beats Argentina 86-79 and will travel motivated to Olympic Games

The basketball team of Argentina defeated France by 86-79 on Monday and, by winning the friendly tournament Super Four, come in the best way the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The albiceleste team had already secured the first place in the tournament played in the province of Cordoba, central Argentina, beating Croatia and Serbia.

Emanuel Ginobili and Carlos Delfino were the top scorers in Argentina, with 15 points, while Nando Colo, with 20, was the most important of France.

It was the last game of both selected, which will now focus on the Olympics.

In the first round, Serbia beat Croatia 86-77, with partial 16-19; 36-40 and 64-60, and was second in this tournament.

Bojan Bogdanovic , most valuable player game with 18 points and Krunoslav Simon with 14 were the top scorers of the Croatian team while Miroslav Raduljica, with 17, and Bogdan Bogdanovic , 13, stood out in Serbian.

Barcelona closes the signing of French Central Umtiti, according to "L'Equipe"

Barcelona has reached an agreement with Lyon to gain the services of the French center Samuel Umtiti , 22, for 30 million euros, said today the newspaper "L'Equipe" .

This header adds that Barcelona must now conclude the agreement with the player, who "probably" sign a contract of 5 seasons at the Catalan club.

The young center, 1.81 meters, dispute right now the European Championship with France after being selected at the last moment before the injury barcelonista down Jérémy Mathieu .

Born in Cameroon , Umtiti moved with his family to France two years and trained as a footballer in the youth ranks at Olympique Lyonnais.

He jumped to the first team in 2011 and has played four seasons in the league France where last season played 35 games. In 2012 he won the French Cup with his club.

From teenager it has been part of the lower echelons of the French team, proclaimed champion of the world sub ​​20 in 2013 against Uruguay and alongside fellow as Lucas Digne, Geoffrey Kondogbia or Paul Pogba .

Currently he dispute his first championship with the national team, but has not yet made ​​his debut with those of Didier Deschamps , who will meet next Sunday against Iceland in the quarterfinals.

Cameroon had tried to choose to play with his country of birth, but the player made ​​clear that he preferred to defend the colors of France.

Romanian selection complaint spied two French training

Romanian Football Federation has denounced today before the UEFA that two French nationals were caught while recording images of team training on Thursday ahead of their clash tonight against France in the opening match Euro.

The Romanian Federation has transferred to the tournament organizers continental images as evidence that two individuals were filming with a camera closed to the press and public training, several Romanian media reported.

According to sports daily Dolce Sport, coaching staff members Romania realized the presence of these two people and they went to ask them to stop recording.

That means states that the two "spies" were French journalists

France broke with "the curse of the local"

In the opening match of Euro 2016 , France beat, with right and thanks to the magic of Dimitri Payet , by 2-1 in Romania in Saint-Denis and thus broke with "the curse of the local" in the most important event to level teams in the old continent.

Since the opening match Euro plays host the whole and not the champion, there had never been a local triumph.

In 2004, Portugal lost to Greece 1-2 in the Estadio do Dragao Porto. Four years later , in Saint Jakob Park in Basel, Switzerland lost to Czech Republic 1-0 .

In Poland last year failed with Greece and drew 1-1 at the Stadion Narodowy. And now it was the turn of France who managed to impose on history thanks to a blockbuster Dimitri Payet after 90 minutes to make it 2-1 and keep the three starting points.

Euro 2016: Ganduri dupa Franta - Romania 2-1

Am jucat ca niciodată, am pierdut ca întotdeauna !

Nici nu stiu cu ce sa-ncep. Hai sa-ncep cu Payet.

A fost surpriza serii pentru mine. Nu pentru superba execuție ("un fleac ne-a ciuruit") ci pentru prestația din seara asta.

Îți spun sincer știam de el ca a jucat în Franța apoi l-a luat West Ham si atît. Am remarcat cit potențial are (ruperi de ritm, viteza,dribling fin inteligenta tactica, execuție etc.) si cit de mult poate să mai progreseze. De acum îl voi urmări foarte atent.

 Îți dai seama ce fierbinte-i telefonul impresarului! Cit despre noi, cu Dumnezeu înainte (apropo de iconițe). Jucam foarte bine si pierdem ca de obicei ( operația reușită , pacientul mort) Bine că au marcat în min.89 si nu in min. 85 ca ne mai dădeau un gol.

French government urged to negotiate the CGT union at the approach of Euro 2016

The government of France, which seeks to avoid a paralysis of public transport when next week starts the football tournament Euro 2016, urged on Tuesday the union CGT to negotiate a way out of confrontation about plans Executive to reform labor laws.

Ministers of Transport and Employment made the call after signs that the CGT, the second largest union by members, may be ready for talks after months of street protests and regular strikes, while another strike is planned on the railways during the day .

The Socialist government has taken the checkbook to calm other sectoral disputes and prevent the protest became a national movement. The Government announced a salary increase for teachers, abandoned plans to cut spending on research and promised funds to settle a dispute over unemployment insurance in the performing arts.

Stop railways and strike calls in other sectors of transport envisaged for the week have raised fears of chaos when starting the Euro 2016, which takes place from 10 June to 10 July, with the estimate of a attendance of 2.5 million fans in stadiums, including 1.5 million foreign visitors.

Although President Francois Hollande has reiterated its refusal to withdraw the labor reform that would facilitate the hiring and firing, the ministers said they hoped to defuse the conflict if the leader of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, showed available.

For now, the union has asked that the government withdraw the reform plan and has led marches and stops in sectors such as transport and refining of oil.

Minister for Employment, Myriam The Khomri, told RTL radio that if there was no change in the position of the union, there would be no agreement.

The union leader said in a debate on RTL radio: "Let's talk again." He added that there was "no preconditions".

Hollande told the daily Sud Ouest in an interview that there was no turning back on the proposed law to ease labor regulations.

Varane was finally dropped from the list of France for Euro

The center of Real Madrid Raphael Varane not finally be in the European Championship with the France team after being ruled today by coach Didier Deschamps , who has appointed Sevilla defender Adil Rami to replace him .

In a statement, the French Football Federation (FFF) said that medical tests this morning the player in the concentration of the "Bleus" confirmed the initial diagnosis of the doctors of Real Madrid, that is, a tear grade 2 the femoral biceps of the left leg.

Varane, who has played the last 24 games of the French national team, suffered the injury in training with Real Madrid in preparation for the final of the League of Champions, a game for which will also be low the central young Frenchman.

"At the time of unavailability, deemed too long for the time the national team, Didier Deschamps has decided not to call Varane for Euro 2016," France welcomes from June 10, the statement said.

Rami sees the call recognized with the good season he has done with Sevilla, which this year came from the Milan .

The sevillista, 30, has 26 international calls and scored a goal.

Deschamps confirms the low Jérémy Mathieu

Didier Deschamps confirmed today at a press conference injury of Jérémy Mathieu , who finished with discomfort of the final of the Copa del Rey after 75 minutes played.

The defense of Barcelona , with pain in the calf, will cause low for the next game that the selection of France held in Nantes, according to Deschamps himself, though not in danger for Euro 2016.

"There are many players that the Euro will be lost, not only in France. Jérémy Mathieu is also affected. He played 75 minutes in the Copa del Rey and felt discomfort in the calf, but it's nothing serious. It will not be available for the next match Nantes, but I hope to know more over the weekend. So all, there is concern facing the Euro, "said the French coach.

On the other hand, Deschamps also spoke of Adil Rami , which emphasized its "great season" and recalled that it had already played "25 matches for France." "I have great faith in Rami , " said the coach, showing his confidence in who probably take over the defense in the next game.

PSG - Lorient receives the semi-finals of the French Cup

French champions in advance and eliminated from the Champions League by Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain visits Lorient on Tuesday, seeking to win his second title of the season. The game will be held at Yves Allainmat stadium at 17h (GMT), the semi-finals of the French Cup.

The staff of the French capital is packed after a victory by 6-0 against Caen, and go to the next match with maximum force. Principals will not have an easy life; facing the best team in France, but can count on the support of its fans and also come with moral after winning the Toulouse.

The winner of this clash contest the final who emerge victorious from the match between Sochaux and Olympique Marseille, who meet next Thursday, the Auguste Bonal stadium in Montbeliard.

The regulation of the French Cup, the knockout stage is played in single matches and, in the event of a tie, there is an extension, and if kept equal, the confrontation is decided on penalty kicks.

The Burns Leagues, Juve flies, and Leicester ties "in extremis"

The home defeat of Barcelona against Valencia has put the League "red hot" in a European weekend which saw Juve flies in the Calcio, the Leicester save " in extremis "a point in the Premier League, Bayern Munich and increasingly close alirón in the Bundesliga .

The day in the Old Continent also had names of scorers: Swedish Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Paris Saint Germain), Poland 's Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich), and Argentine Sergio "Kun" Aguero ( Manchester City ) and Leo Messi ( Barcelona).

League, no doubt , is luxury, burns. Barcelona now seen as the Atletico Madrid will equal in the standings, although the Barcelona team is leading by "particularly between the two , " and as the Real Madrid is one point.

Something unthinkable only a month ago, when the Barcelona dominated widely, with up to 9 points ahead of Atletico and Real Madrid 13 over.

But Barcelona is dangerous "downhill". A spectacular fall in the league (a point in the last four games) has joined this week the elimination of Champions League Europe feet of Atletico Madrid. And the concern at the top.

Four out of five French people support the exclusion of Benzema Euro

The decision of the French Football Federation (FFF) to exclude striker Karim Benzema for the next European Championship has broad support in public opinion, according to a survey released today reveals that four of five French approve the measure.

Last Wednesday the Federation and coach Didier Deschamps made his decision public in finding that the squad must have a behavior "exemplary" after Benzema has been indicted for his alleged complicity in blackmail with a sex video to the player Mathieu Valbuena .

The survey, conducted by the Odoxa home to the station "RTL" shows that the percentage of French who now oppose the madridista play with the "Bleus", 81%, is even greater than that recorded in February in a similar query (70%).

This figure rises even more football fans among those who reject 85% its call for Euro that his country is hosting this summer declared.

Similarly, 77% of the 1,009 respondents find that the FFF sought to preserve the team spirit away to Real Madrid striker.

Benzema is charged with complicity in an alleged blackmail with a sex video to also international Valbuena, but the judge investigating the case raised a few months ago the precautionary measures that prevented him from contact with the latter.

The FFF said that "there is no obstacle to be selected at the legal level," the national team, but at the same time made it clear that "athletic performance is an important but not exclusive criterion for deciding the call in the France ".

Ligue 2: Nancy Dijon joins top

Nancy, logical winner facing Valenciennes (1-0) thanks to goals scored in the final minutes, did not miss the opportunity to join Dijon topped the Ligue 2 Monday in closing the 18th day.

The Lorraine wanted to join Dijon in mind, the goal is reached. Intractable home for two months, evidenced by the series of four wins in a row with three goals scored each time before the meeting, 

<br/><br/> had to settle this time the minimum score.

Largely dominating throughout the meeting, Lorraine have long struggled with the Yankees huddled in defense, and Damien Perquis in grace.

Pedretti discount on the box, Dale resumed with a powerful header but Perquis was on a high class reflex save (38). The first of a long series.

At the break, the locals as continued to monopolize the ball and try to unbalance the defense by multiplying combinations of game, like Puyo (52), but failed in the final gesture.

Even the indestructible Youssouf Hadji, only six meters after a new strike repelled by Perquis missed the inevitable (68), five minutes after entering the game. Before seeing its subtle header pass from a nothing next ( 75).

Unbeatable, Perquis rejected the latest attempt by Moroccan, author of a beautiful half volley (80).

But five minutes from the end, the Valenciennes keeper has finally tilted in an unstoppable shot from Dale, served recessed Muratori (85). The attacker could even afford a double but his shot crashed into the pole (90 + 2).

Results of the 18th day of Ligue 2 football:

France reaffirms its role of favorite against Switzerland, Albania and Romania EURO 2016

The draw for Euro 2016 with Switzerland , Albania and Romania as rivals in Group A, reaffirmed the role of favourite in the France, the host of the tournament, in a quartet with light Forecast for team 'bleu' three secondary combined in this continental football against.

Or Switzerland, who has never passed the group stage of the tournament, and Romania, whose best result is the quarterfinals of 2000, or Albania, debutants and a historical record of European official matches only includes 18 wins 93 duels, are today up to the powerful Gallic set.

He accompanied the luck to France, twice European champion (1984 and 2000) and once the World (1998), which neither the internal conflict with the French Karim Benzema , section of the selection for his alleged involvement in the 'case Valbuena ', detract points as candidate number one to the first position towards the second round.

Directed by Didier Deschamps , without the burden contest the long qualifying for being a organizer and men as Antoine Griezmann , Paul Pogba , Raphael Varane , Blaise Matuidi , Olivier Giroud or Anthony Martial, including a block of very good players all that is not first group will be a disappointment for France, which will open the tournament on June 10.

It will do in Saint Denis in front of Romania, who returns to after his absence in 2012 tournament and a qualifying unbeaten, which has distributed wins and draws, five of each, to close the round in second place , behind Ireland North, and with only two goals conceded in ten games.

Sus, sensational in the previous round, defensive data caution against any overconfidence to France, which also will cross Switzerland, also second in the standings, behind this solid England. It has never passed the first stage of the tournament in their previous three appearances: 1996, 2004 and 2008.

Now he wants more, with the mainline and lateral speed Stephan Lichsteiner, of Juventus , or forward Xherdan Shaqiri , now at Stoke City , two of its currently outstanding names and their arguments to fight as a minimum by the second square and disturb the foreseeable leadership of France.

The options are much more limited for Albania, in its historic debut in the finals of the European Championship. She comes as second in qualifying group, such as Switzerland and Romania, and benefited from the enlargement to 24 places for the competition. And awaits your desired premiere on June 11 against Switzerland in Lens.

It will be the culmination of a challenge led by Italian coach Gianni De Biasi, extécnico the Levant, led by a group that bears the tournament with nothing to lose and with the memory of last June 13 he won in a friendly to France (1-0), a notice to the undoubted favorite in Group A.

Ribery was denounced by magazine - again in a prostitution case

The French footballer Franck Ribery was denounced by the tabloid magazine "Closer," which again involved in a case of prostitution by threatening image and dignity, so he claimed 400,000 euros "in reparation for moral prejudice," Efe said his lawyer, Carlos Alberto Brusa.

The French magazine published an article entitled "scandal rocking the new French football" in which the player involved in a new scandal involving prostitution.

The midfielder was questioned on 26 November for the Suppression of Procuring Brigade (BRP) in Paris as part of a preliminary investigation into a network of international prostitution.

According to his lawyer, the police just picked his testimony so he was free immediately and without charge. "My client is completely unrelated to any judicial investigation, 'Closer' rumors and reports no information," he said.

The Bayern Munich player, 32, was accused of having sex in 2009 with a prostitute called Zahia Dehar luxury when she was younger, case for which he was acquitted in January 2014.

Franck Ribery filed a lawsuit against the company Mondadori Magazine France , which the magazine "Closer" belongs to the Court of First Instance of Nanterre, west of Paris.

Lacina Traoré, the Monaco UFO

There was once an Ivorian arrived in Europe 18 years. A player with a volleyball physical (2,03m) and braved the cold before experiencing a club of the European Top 50. 

Passed by Romania (CFR Cluj) and Russia (Kuban Krasnodar and Anzhi Makhachkala where he played alongside Samuel Eto'o), Lacina Traoré took advantage of a connivance between the leaders and those of AS Monaco, also Russian, to land on the Rock of Monaco in January 2014. The amount paid by the DSO (€ 10 million) and salary (€ 150,000) seemed so well behaved despite the international status of the player then 23 years old. 

Six months before the World Cup, new transfer and a loan to Everton. But an injury when his second game deprived him of his hopes of Brazil. Back in Monaco the following summer, he only played six games in 2014-15 L1. The blame for repeated injuries.

The least bad the lawn

Finally operational early in the season, the native of Abidjan took advantage of the departure of Anthony Martial Manchester to know more tenure. 

Leonardo Jardim yet wanted him to leave this summer but, for lack of supply, he found himself in competition with Argentina's Guido Carrillo. Two players not really cut to evolve into a system with a single point. 

"At one time, it was the least bad playing, says Mathieu Faure, following particular for Monaco Nice-Matin and So Foot. Both have a not very academic style of play and not very nice to see when it is a team that wants to offer the game. 

"But lack of a better Jardim had to do with since the beginning of the season and his patience ( he often protected his two strikers to the press) is beginning to bear fruit, notably with the first double Traoré in Ligue 1 Saturday on the lawn of Bastia.

Lacina, the Monegasque turtle

His first two goals in L1 are however no surprise to Mathieu Faure: "It is an experienced player. They score two goals in L1, which is more in Bastia is the minimum. 

What's weird with him, is that he took so long to put his goals. It has a very unusual style. It is not nice to see him play. He does not like to play head so I do not see the point of having a guy 2m peak. When the ball comes, he gets his head like a turtle . 

"From there to see him go from the Winter Mercato? Nothing is less certain because his salary seems prohibitive, except of course in the Premier League. This does not prevent the Monegasque leaders to prospect now able to recruit a striker to take the depth. This is not really the quality of former team-mate Didier Drogba in Elephants.

"Traoré fate of some crazy things"

Rather clever in front of goal during his time in Eastern Europe, Lacina Traoré is a more atypical scorer. The kind of player that does not happen too in modern football, 

"There you have a physical elsewhere, confirms Mathieu Faure. Sometimes he goes in surges. It is in midfield and attempts of large bridges. 

It is a little awkward, it makes a lot of mistakes. And occasionally, he released a little crazy things like in Bastia where he tried opening a pigeon wing. It is subject to mockery but for the rub, I know he does not care a bit. It remains. It is most popular in the locker room. It is a  very sweet guy. He has a very particular physics. When he comes out of a match, you have the impression he did a marathon. 

"What actually bring a little more light on a player who has remained in the shadows for too long.