61.   In case anyone needed reminding, Youri Djorkaeff and Paris Saint Germain sent out a strong message that French soccer better be taken seriously.

62.   In May, he was suspended from domestic French soccer for five months, three of them suspended, for testing positive for marijuana.

63.   In the most bitter rivalry in French soccer, Paris Saint-Germain visits Marseille on Sunday backed by its own fans for the first time in five years.

64.   Indeed, many credit the World Cup with attracting women into French soccer stadiums for the first time.

65.   Jacquet will replace Gerard Houllier, himself a former coach of the French soccer team.

66.   Leaving much sooner than expected, the French soccer team headed home on Wednesday, a day after it was eliminated from the first round of the World Cup.

67.   Lessons also were on the mind of the French soccer federation, which has summoned coach Roger Lemerre to an emergency session Friday, LCI television reported in Paris.

68.   Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier, a former coach of the French soccer team, underwent cardiac surgery Saturday after suffering chest pains during a match.

69.   Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier, a former coach of the French soccer team, was taken to hospital Saturday after suffering chest pains during a match.

70.   Michel Platini, the former French soccer great, and Fernand Sastre, the co-chairmen of the organization committee for the World Cup, also accompanied Havelange.