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lefties are anti-USA and unbalanced as this soccer player --- Coach Raymond Domenech canceled a parade that had been planned for the Champs-Elysees, where viewing stands and banners of red, white and blue had been prepared for a win-or-lose World Cup procession in advance of Friday's Bastille Day celebrations.
Instead, fans gathered at the Place de la Concorde, the spot where Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, were publicly guillotined during the French Revolution.
After a lunch with French President Jacques Chirac, the team clambered off a bus at the front of the crowd, faces somber, looking more like they were bracing for a beheading than like they were being welcomed home.
Despite yells of support from the crowd, Zidane could barely face the gathering from the balcony where the team was standing. His face set in a grimace, he barely looked up, and he gave only a slight wave to the throng baking in the sun below.
Gael Solignac, a 30-year-old computer technician from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, watched from below.
"I was very disappointed with the way Zidane ended his career," Solignac said.
Expressing the sentiment of many French, he added, "First, people will talk about this unbelievable action, then what will remain is a great man, a great player who brought so much to French soccer and French society."
Researcher Corinne Gavard contributed to this report. |
