The tournament was to be played out in a new frontier as Japan and South Korea shared hosting responsibilities. France host a friendly with Finland next Wednesday before playing Nations League matches away to European champions Portugal on Nov. 14 and at home to Sweden three days later. “These were nine-year-old kids. I do not excuse violence, but I understand it.”. Elle révèle, comme les autres polémiques portant sur l’utilisation de mots comme «racisé» ou «blanchité», une incapacité à penser le racisme en tant que système. He took the side of the young people that were rioting, rather than the politicians. “The black-blanc-beur symbol we created was positive and I liked it,” he says of the “black, white, Arab” motto. Pourquoi la chaîne YouTube «ThinkerView» bloque-t-elle des internautes sur Twitter ? Interrogé sur les insultes racistes qui pleuvent dans les stades sur les joueurs noirs, Thuram explique : «Il faut prendre conscience que le monde du foot n’est pas raciste, mais qu’il y a du racisme dans la culture italienne, française, européenne et plus généralement dans la culture blanche. It was a sparkling performance that gave the nation hope. Lilian Thuram is sat on the top floor of a Monte Carlo hotel, beside a large window which looks out over the azure waters of the Mediterranean Sea, where multi-million pound yachts twinkle in … Frank Rijkaard had lost the dressing room and players were regularly arguing with one another in training. Immanuel Wallerstein : le système et l’histoire, Mugabe : le «père de l’indépendance» devenu despote indéboulonnable, Commission européenne, mort de Steve, Israël... l'actu de ce mardi, Pour la dépénalisation de l'homosexualité en Tunisie. He was born in Guadeloupe in 1972. Laïc convaincu, proche de LFI et marxiste non-défroqué, ce prof de philo se retrouve au centre d’une polémique exagérée sur l’islamophobie. After the game had finished and France had confirmed their place in the final, the French players carried him off the pitch on their shoulders. Dua Lipa : « Les femmes doivent travailler plus dur pour être prises au sérieux », Miley Cyrus : son conseil pour surmonter les épreuves de la vie, Sharon Stone, Rihanna, Lady Gaga : tous attendent le résultat de l’élection présidentielle. Combien de Blancs privés d’études, de logement ou d’emploi en raison de la couleur de leur peau et dans l’indifférence générale ? The Frenchman does not consider himself to be the next Mandela or King but the number of books on the shelves of his office dedicated to those two historical figures suggest he is deeply inspired by them. At club level, Thuram returned to Juve for the 2002/03 season with a point to prove. Despite a shaky opening game, losing Zidane to a red card and winning a nervy penalty shootout in the quarters, the French team marched into the semis where they would face Croatia, who had beaten Germany 3-0 in their quarter-final. Abonnés. Thuram never forgot that he was a kid from the streets who had achieved a dream that so many have. Si les smartphones avaient existé, comment aurait-on raconté la naissance d'Internet ? “They like to think the suburbs are full of violent thugs but they’re not. Since retiring he’s remained in the limelight in France for his views on many issues. Like many before her, Thuram’s single mother, Mariana, left the island to move to France and become an economic migrant. I am talking to Thuram at the headquarters of his association in the Odéon district of central Paris. Et pour cause, Marcus et Khéphren Thuram sont les fils de Lilian Thuram, champion du monde de football en 1998. Back on the club scene, Thuram’s assured performances had the caught the eye of many, but ultimately it was Parma who won the race for his signature. After a smart ball played over the top found Šuker in acres of space, the Croatian coolly slid the ball past the onrushing Fabien Barthez to give them the lead. France’s most‑capped player now battles racism with the ferocious determination that made him one of the leading defenders of his generation and travels the world for talks at schools, universities and conferences. While her son had absolute respect and admiration for his mother, he didn’t have the same relationship with his father. Regretfully, her search for work meant she had to leave her five-year-old son behind to be cared for by relatives. Many in France were divided over his statements. At the end of his contract with Barcelona in 2008, he would join up with France to play at Euro 2008. «Les Blancs»: la formule, généralisante, est visiblement grave au point que la Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l’antisémitisme (Licra) croie devoir se fendre d’un communiqué dénonçant les «risques d’une dérive du combat antiraciste» – recevant au passage une accolade du trésorier du Rassemblement nationale (RN, ex-FN).