{"id":9895,"date":"2011-12-09T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/leboeuf-says-france-have-no-chance-at-euro-2012\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T20:00:07","slug":"leboeuf-says-france-have-no-chance-at-euro-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/09\/leboeuf-says-france-have-no-chance-at-euro-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Leboeuf says France have no chance at Euro 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtnfootball.com\/content\/photo_1323451341898-1-0_280x191.jpg\" width=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>World Cup winner with France, Frank Leboeuf<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Frank Leboeuf, a World Cup winner with France, has written off his country&#8217;s 2012 European Championship hopes.<\/p>\n<p>France have been going through a transitional period under new manager Laurent Blanc after a wretched campaign at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, which was blighted by trouble on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Many though have tipped Les Bleus to be dark horses in Poland and Ukraine next year, citing Greece&#8217;s shock against-the-odds triumph in 2004 as an example of what can be achieved.<\/p>\n<p>Although a 17-match unbeaten run has raised optimism in France, Leboeuf believes escaping out of a competitive group that includes England, Ukraine and Sweden is the best they can realistically aim for at Euro 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s good that France have qualified and we can give major international experience to the players,&#8221; former Chelsea defender Leboeuf told AFP in an interview here on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the only use we can put the competition to as we don?t expect to win. We want to be ready long-term for the World Cup in 2014,&#8221; added the 43-year-old, in London as an ambassador for English Premier League title sponsor Barclays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It?s going to be tough as people forget we had to start from scratch,&#8221; explained Leboeuf, winner of the both the World Cup (1998) and European Championships (2000) with France during his 50-cap career.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have done well, but we don&#8217;t know the value of the team yet. Everyone talks about the past with France, but we lost a lot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot was destroyed with the spirit and the view of the fans towards the team during that World Cup (in South Africa).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For France, with the likes of Thierry Henry and Zinedine Zidane long gone, getting out of the group stage would be seen as good progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92011 AFP<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> World Cup winner with France, Frank Leboeuf Frank Leboeuf, a World Cup winner with France, has written off his country&#8217;s 2012 European Championship hopes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Leboeuf says France have no chance at Euro 2012 - 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