Sacre bleu! French soccer team banned from Wii

Posted Mar 10th 2008 8:00PM by Chris Greenhough
Filed under: Fan stuff

French national ~~football~~ soccer team coach Raymond Domenech is a strange one. A keen astrologer who shies from picking Scorpios for his squad (apparently, he "doesn't trust them"), Domenech has now banned his players from playing on the Wii. We like to think that Raymond is a regular Wii Fanboy reader, and has read up on previous Wii-related injuries! We're probably being overly hopeful.

Anyway, the French side is due to take part in the European Championships this summer (read: a big deal), so clearly Domenech wants to give his team every possible edge. Rubbish old England failed to qualify, of course, so they're welcome to play all the Wii they want. Silver linings and all that, eh chaps?

[Via Go Nintendo]

Tags: football, france, soccer, sports, wiinjury

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

3-10-2008 @ 8:57PM

oOo BioShock oOo said...

Soccer? French?

3-10-2008 @ 9:54PM

Haohmaru said...

Futbol!

3-10-2008 @ 10:09PM

Greg2k said...

Jules: What do they call Football?
Vincent: Well, Football's Futbol, but they call it "Le Futbol".
Jules: Le Futbol. Ha ha ha ha. What do they call Basketball?

3-10-2008 @ 10:25PM

Haohmaru said...

Vincent: You know what the funniest thing about Europe is?
Jules: What?
Vincent: It's the little differences. I mean they got the same sh** over there that they got here, but it's just, just there it's a little different.

3-11-2008 @ 8:56AM

Big Ed said...

Example.

3-10-2008 @ 11:48PM

Feigr said...

How can they let someone with sub-par intelligence (believing in astrology) manage a football team?

3-11-2008 @ 12:34AM

hvnlysoldr said...

Obviously he should let them play Strikers Charged and Wii Fit.

3-11-2008 @ 2:53PM

Chris said...

Rubbish old england? We kick your ass!

And i like wiifanboy, never posted here before so hello.

And dont offend the english again =] please.

3-12-2008 @ 9:16AM

ChrisG said...

Chris, I'm English myself, and sorry, but we're rubbish. Though I'll admit that Capello does give me a faint sense of hope!

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