1.   Celomer drafted in French consultancy Creci, the organisation that became familiar to laymen after helping the French national soccer management.

2.   Any profit the FOC makes will be divided between the government and the French soccer association.

3.   But after this failure, there will be a lot of pages turning on this glorious generation of French soccer that wilted so quickly.

4.   French soccer has not been plagued by hooliganism as much as England, or Germany.

5.   French soccer seemed mortified.

6.   French soccer clubs are pushing the government for legal changes to boost their performance on the playing field and on their balance sheets.

7.   It has been so long since the French soccer team won a big match that the very idea raises Gallic eyebrows.

8.   It also seems to epitomize French soccer, which has risen from the sad wastelands of the world to a thing of beauty.

9.   It was a coup for French soccer and French fashion at the World Cup championships.

10.   Not the St. Louis blues, or the lowdown blues, but the nickname for the blue-clad French soccer team.