Team France

Friendly game : Italy 2 - 1 France

22/06/09

France was defeated the friendly match in front of Italy. The first one undone of overalls goes back up for 6 years.

Italy : COZZOLI puis CUTRI, MELATTI, SALATI , GROTTO , SCHIRATO , LUPPI, GRIPPO puis MANNARI, BRAGUAGUA puis SCOTTON TESTORI puis CHIFALO, MERENDA puis BOCCACCI , CONVITO puis CHIOFALOL
Coach : FERRARI

France : DESENCLOS, HADJIDJ, MENDES, GUYON, COLAS, BOUGHANMI, AHMED-MESSAOUD, BOUMDIL, FLOWER, OPINA, JACOB. En seconde période, DESENCLOS, COLAS, FLOWER, HADJIDJ, BOUGHAMNI, OPINA ont été remplacés par GOMIS, BABO, FORCHI, PELTIER, NANA, MORVAN
Coach : COLSON

Referees : MM. : LODI, BAULEO, TROINO

Goal : France : AHMED MESSAOUD (28’) Italy : TESTORIE (62’) , CONNITO (88’)

Within the framework of its preparation with the aim of JO of TAIWAN, The French team was thus away on business in the country of Bel Canto and spaghettis …

Arrived at the airport of Bologna, welcome by Italian leaders, minibus and hotel to Modena. Meal and in the bed. Training Saturday morning, just after the thunderstorm, for a match the start of which was fixed at 5 pm.

The French team thus lost on the score of 2 purposes in 1. Having dominated three quarters of the party. It had been easy to protect the result by locking the game without making any replacement, it was not the purpose of the operation. The earnings of the match were not a priority for Brice ALLAIN and Serge COLSON; this match was important, in the optics of TAIWAN; it was indispensable to be able to realize where were the players at the end of the season, their capacity and their possible complementarity.

That is why five players were replaced in second period, all participated, with the exception of wounded Arnaud MOLINA.

The film of the match

Start given by Italy. France benefits straight off franc of the party from the third minute in thirty five metres slightly to the left. The Italian guard diverts from the fist.

It is in the tour of Italy to obtain a free kick (5 ') in twenty five metres to the left, without continuation.

The sixth minute, launched well, CAME OUT IN FAVOUR is pinched in twenty five metres of the opposite purposes, AHMED MESSAOUD kicks, the defence intercepts. New free kick for France, of the middle of the ground, the shooting of COLAS is pushed away by COZZOLI. Follows a shooting of BOUMDIL, thirty metres, the ball goes out to the left. In the tenth minute, free kick followed by a corner kick for the Italian team, kicked by BOCCACI, resumed by the head of BRAGUAGUA, the ball goes out. A shooting of BOUMDIL (13 ') is pushed away by COZZOLI. Italian answer by CONNITO who, at the conclusion of a beautiful descent centres, the ball walks past the purposes guarded by DESENCLOS, a person to start again. Another free kick for France for fault on MENDE, in twenty metres to the left, shooting of BOUMDIL resumed by the head by one attack French, the ball goes out. Very active CONNITO, later a long running sends a shooting on DESENCLOS who, taken out well, seizes the ball. A beautiful phase of game is going to allow France to open the score on an excellent relay BOUMDIL / MENDE, the ball reaches AHMED MESSAOUD who of twenty five metres in front of Italian purposes, is going to beat COZZOLI, this last one, although having got the ball, will not succeed in stopping it. Overalls have a game more constructed than the Italian team within which TESTORI and CONNITO show themselves very active. A distant shooting of this last one is got well in height by DESENCLOS. Some moments later, hook against France, DESENCLOS pushes away the ball, the resumption of an Italian aggressor just goes out above.

The French game is lively, pleasant, the middle of ground very feeling at ease; we can however regret the badly measured centres which JACOB does not succeed in resuming of the head 38'un centre of CONNITO is resumed at point-blank range by GRIPPO, DESENCLOS at the price of an excellent stop reflex diverts from the fist to fold it. A little bit before half-time, action led by GROTTO / TESTORI / CONNITO, the ball fails on DESENCLOS. Half-time is whistled on the score of 1 purpose to 0 in favour of France.

In the resumption, the coach proceeded to five foreseen replacements. In fifty the third minute, GROTTO throws TESTORI whose shooting is got by well taken out GOMIS. One minute later, CONNITO kicks some touchline, GOMIS blocks. France misses a magnificent occasion in the next minute: AHMED MESSAOUD looks to MORVAN who passes to PELTIER, this one, almost only in the surface has all the time to check and to adjust its shooting, instead of it, he starts again and the ball goes out above. 57 ', JACOB's head centres of BABO, the ball goes out. Italy, although being always dominated is going to reduce the mark thanks to a defensive error; indeed the defence instead of loosening the ball plays dangerously, the ball is intercepted by TESTORI who stands out closely. Sixty ninth minute, MERENDA left on the verge of the offside is taken well by MORVAN. PELTIER would have been able to restore the advantage in France (70 ') by resuming a ball in eighteen metres, his passing resumption in quoted. One moment later, everybody believes in the second French purpose, the ball resumed by the head by JACOB is going to penetrate under the bar, it went out in the last second by an Italian defender. 75 ', relay MORVAN / BABO FORCHI, center and .ras. AHMED MESSAOUD kicks a free kick of eighteen metres, slightly to the left (82 '), just above. Italian, although not dominating, are however going to obtain the victory, still a defensive error; CONNITO, left on the verge of the offside gets rid of one badly placed defender and beats GOMIS of a shooting crossed in short of earth. The end of the match is whistled on the score of 2 purposes to one for Italy.