A franco-français debate, one of the ones we have the secret, engulfed the media and political communities but also cafes in our country. Is it the pension reform Is it the financial crisis No, it is much more serious: the Elimination of the team of France football in the first round of the World Cup! And what debate! Policies, which Ministers, amnesia blowing in the sails of an incendiary populism burning icons of yesterday. Tabloïdesques media that too many pay in a pathetic activity of paparazzi. Powerful actors of the "sports business" indignant after having sought to commercialise, until in the lamps of the crisis, a "supportérisme" made mandatory by their intense advertising campaigns using the same players that they condemn today for a few weeks before reintegrating them very quickly.
Yes, the French technical staff and players were sportingly void as other sports and French footballers before them (remember the 1998 2002 generation). Yes, they were during this short drama of sad men for some. Yes, the image of what remains of the France brand has been wounded a few days and for a few hours yet. But stop to these factual findings would be inadequate and very loose. It is not only to remake the game. There is even a form of obsession with General and easy to concentrate fire on those who remain of high level athletes. This short paper and its actors are metaphorical portraits of French society. As a stage is a living reflection of a city or a country, sport can escape from societal realities.

And now that the football World Cup is all our screens. With the summer Olympic Games, it is the most watched across the world and one of the Windows of the exercise of public diplomacy best-performing. What have we done Around the world watched the France through sport stakeholders that represent and especially the reflect. Our schizophrenic country itself broadcast loop, to himself and to others, the image and sounds of a country break of reality around him and beset by an inability to define a common experience. And we know this reflected so that we do not want to look at the mirror in the face and prefer to look away and accuse, shouting and tomorrow may hang. The traitor is among us. Seek the, assume nothing and condemn. Behind the large screen of smoke for this global event, we have forgotten the levels of abstention that marked the two last European and regional elections. We have not heard the cry of the mediator of the Republic that alarm a French company where "beggar has replaced the desire to live together".
As our society, the French football is in crisis. He translated, Sundays and very professional space, the reality of the current societal failure. Constant increase of physical and verbal violence in games. Strikes of arbitrators. Refusal of the authority generalized. Fighting communautaristes
Football, become the real outlet of the national being evil is yet as a sad face of frustration, uncertainty, disappointment, tensions in a country in loss of landmarks, of wills, message to the rest of the world. Who is guilty repeat in loop in this famous PAF. Players such as citizens, the Federation as politicians, the media as partners in this masquerade of boulevard become geopolitical expression of our national malaise. It is not only crucified players, the coach, the President of the French football and thus exorcising evil French. It changes in the parameters of the France experience. A France who seizes rule with dignity and without weakness its internal crises and unites around a shared experience. A France within the challenges of the world as it is and again proposes an attractive and credible myth. A France successful not only in major international sports competitions but especially the relentless territorial and economic competition global that we must confront.