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All that I've done, don't do it.
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You'll only make enemies.
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Will you overcome hardship? I don't know.
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Are you mentally tough? I don't know.
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You want to be like me?
There's no point. You're not me.
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If you really want to be like me
and do what I've done...
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be prepared.
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I think if Nico made a film,
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it would have
more parts than Harry Potter.
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Or it could be like Star Wars.
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The end is the beginning,
but the beginning isn't really the end.
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He scored again!
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Anelka has made it through!
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Well... the Che.
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-The Che.
-The Che.
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He's a guy with integrity.
He's got your back. He's reliable.
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This is the 17-year-old
shaking up football.
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I think Nicolas Anelka is almost
the forgotten footballer.
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Nico is someone who stands out.
You love him or you hate him.
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Nico is no angel
when he doesn't want to be an angel.
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An unsporting gesture from Anelka.
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He made clear that
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"he'll have to get down on his knees
for me to play for France again."
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Nico doesn't know
how to be politically correct.
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Nicolas Anelka expelled
from the France team.
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If the events are true,
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they are unacceptable.
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When you know him
and he gets accused of all that,
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it's just so infuriating
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because he's the exact opposite
of what they say he is.
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The Champions League? Here it is.
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Nico is like a big brother.
He's always guided me.
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It's all the excesses of our society:
money, individualism...
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For me, we're talking about one
of the greatest strikers in history.
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He's done well here. Got away...
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-Oh, my word!
-What a goal that is!
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Nico, fuck...
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DUBAI
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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You OK, son?
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It's time.
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It's time to go to school.
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It's time...
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Well done!
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Well done.
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Kais, it's time.
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It's time.
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OK?
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I never said I was retiring...
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because who cares.
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It's not important.
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It's been 20 years of football. It's time.
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There you go!
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I had the opportunity to continue playing,
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but it would have meant
being far from my family again.
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It got to a point where I thought:
"No, I'm happy like this.
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Life is good.
My family is here, so are my children.
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I want to see them grow up
and have a quiet life."
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Nico had always said to me:
"The day I stop playing,
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I'd like us to go and live in Dubai
because I feel good there.
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It's sunny. The people are cool."
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We love spending time
at home with the children,
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as a family.
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There you go, son.
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-It's time.
-Let's go.
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It's at the end of your career
that you realise what you've done.
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Either you're proud or you think:
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"I've acted like a victim,
like a sheep for 20 years."
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Which I didn't necessarily want to think.
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Or do.
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My parents worked in the public sector.
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My mother worked
at Rambouillet High School.
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My father worked at the Versailles LEA.
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We weren't hard up,
but we weren't well off either, so...
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my parents had to work hard.
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Honestly, I had a wonderful childhood.
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I'm proud to be from the banlieue.
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We spent all our time together.
Outside, inside.
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There was school, too. Films, music.
There were the football games.
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We were really close.
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I'd pick him up and we'd go to school
together since he was in my class.
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Here's the green.
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This is the green.
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It was just a stretch of grass
where there was always a game.
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Our own Parc des Princes.
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I even remember nights
when the green was frozen.
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We'd be like: "That's enough.
We're going home."
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You just couldn't play on it.
But he kept going. He wanted to play.
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Everyone played on the green.
Big kids, little kids.
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And Nico played with them all.
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NICOLAS ANELKA PLAYS FOR TRAPPES FC.
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I started playing when I was eight.
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I was with Karim and Sami.
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They'd go home and I'd tell them
I didn't want to be just a footballer.
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I wanted to be a star.
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It was crazy. It was too much.
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He'd even dress up
as a footballer for carnival.
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You know what I mean?
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I'd be like: "Bro, you need to come up
with another costume." No. Footballer.
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I couldn't turn up as Zorro, so...
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I played football because I wanted
to be like my big brother, Claude.
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He was my role model: I followed his lead
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and I really wanted to do
what he was doing at his age.
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I don't know if his love
of football came from me,
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but...
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what I wanted to do was
help him to progress,
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to evolve as a player,
to become a great player.
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He really wanted it, he had talent,
but he didn't get the break that I did
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with the try-outs at Clairefontaine.
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I left home at the age of 13.
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You're ten now, almost 11.
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So, imagine, in two and a half years,
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you leave home,
you don't sleep here anymore.
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I left for Clairefontaine.
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-Who did you live with?
-I lived in a...
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It was like a training centre.
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There was this building
with a bunch of 13-year-olds,
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and we lived together.
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The INF is the best of the best.
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Back then, the INF was
the number-one football academy.
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There are maybe 500 guys who want
to get into this football academy.
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If you're one of the 23 who do,
it means you have talent.
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Come on!
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They put 20 kids in there.
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They tell them they're going
to become professional footballers.
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Except that out of those 20,
only one or two or three will make it.
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So, it's like a job market.
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When you're at a training centre,
it's war.
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It's ruthless, you've got to beat
your mates who are after the same thing.
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If you're not ready for that
when you're 14, 15, 16...
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then you can't...
no, I don't think you can make it.
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Go for it!
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Go help him...
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Yes!
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I was starting my second year,
he was starting his first.
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When you're in the cafeteria, people talk.
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"That kid in first year, he's good!"
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Nico was so advanced
I didn't see him as a little brother,
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and I don't think he saw me
as a big brother.
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We just tried to compete with each other.
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For me, he was the most talented.
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The most talented. He had a gift.
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But, careful...
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You've got to be up to it,
which is also hard when you're 13.
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What struck me were
the transformations, actually.
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Every time we saw him again,
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we saw him grow up
and turn into a top athlete.
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AT 16,
NICOLAS ANELKA JOINS PSG'S PRO SQUAD.
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While playing for the reserve team,
I joined the pro squad.
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I wasn't a pro,
but I often trained with the pros
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who, at the time,
included George Weah, Ginola,
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Bravo, Bernard Lama...
The legendary PSG team.
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He landed in a club that had won
the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
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Often, young players like him are sent out
to toughen up a bit in second-rate clubs,
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but he very quickly joined
one of the best clubs in Europe.
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I didn't know that type of football,
so I had to learn on the job.
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I got a lot of support
from Samir Amirèche.
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He trained with the pros
like he would with his mates at home.
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He was relaxed, but he had a gift
for running with the ball.
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When you play with the pros,
you go for it.
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It's stimulating. Everyone's psyched.
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The guys are aged 23 to 27,
so you're playing against old-timers.
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If you want to succeed,
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you can't think
that people are better than you.
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Sometimes, I hear kids saying:
"Yeah, he's just so amazing!"
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They're crazy.
They'll never make it, talking like that.
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I would never say:
"That guy is better than me."
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Even if he is. It's just impossible.
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With 20 minutes to go,
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Anelka is sent in to replace Loko.
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Why focus on him?
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Because PSG says
he's the star of tomorrow.
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It's a lot of pressure. As a pro,
you know everyone's watching you.
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Your mates are watching you.
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Today, my kid is 16.
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Nico was the same age
when he lit up the Parc des Princes.
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We were so proud.
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1ST PROFESSIONAL GOAL
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As he found his feet at PSG,
I watched in admiration.
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I saw this guy who was sharp, fast, agile.
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What struck me was realising my mate
was good enough to play at that level.
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He was playing with the greats...
and he was good enough.
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A player like him,
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who bursts onto the scene
and has that maturity so young...
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The football world is obviously
going to be talking about him.
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I sent my recruiters to watch him play.
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He was one of those players who flit
between the juniors and the pros.
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He perhaps felt a little underappreciated.
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He was disappointed.
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I brought him in and I asked him:
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"You want to come to Arsenal?"
He replied: "Yes."
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Football and the Anelka affair.
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This is the 17-year-old
shaking up French football.
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He has just signed
with the English club Arsenal.
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Without realising, Anelka has landed
in a serious legal battle.
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Under French regulations,
the 17-year-old apprentice
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has to sign his first contract
with the club that trained him, PSG,
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but the player's entourage and Arsenal
contend that the Bosman ruling
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and the free movement of players in Europe
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exempt them from that obligation.
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We were a bit worried because
we were the first to...
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let's say, defy the French
football system.
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French football is sticking together.
Its entire training policy is at stake.
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The case is being resolved
by the League and the UEFA,
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so there won't be another Anelka affair.
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We've got to resolve this quickly
and find the legislative means
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to keep junior players
until they're at least 22 or 23.
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Paris wouldn't let him play.
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He said: "I deserve to play.
I have the skills."
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He was the first player
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to stick two fingers up at PSG.
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WILD TRANSFERS
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It's all anyone was talking about.
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The star who embodied
the PSG training programme
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was slamming the door.
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He symbolised the Bosman ruling.
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The free movement
of players and individuals.
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He paved the way
for youngsters at training centres.
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So, yes, they made him pay for it
because he was the first to say:
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"I do what I want
and I play by European rules."
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In my mind, I'm already at Arsenal.
I just signed there.
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I really wanted to leave PSG.
There's no doubt about it.
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ANELKA LEAVES FOR ARSENAL
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Only geniuses have true self-belief.
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It's like painting.
Van Gogh, people like that.
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If a genius doesn't have self-belief,
he can't express his art.
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So, obviously, that takes the form
of an attitude that can seem haughty
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because you're imposing your art.
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People like Thierry Henry, like him,
they were never satisfied with themselves.
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It also shows strength of character
to be like: "OK, you're leaving me out?
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Here's what I'm going to do.
I'm capable of leaving for England.
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I'm young, but I'm not scared."
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I was going to be on an equal footing
with the other strikers...
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so I went for it.
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LONDON
ENGLAND
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After more than a month of talks,
Nicolas Anelka, 17,
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was transferred last night
to the English club Arsenal.
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I remember taking the Eurostar.
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It wasn't easy, it was...
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But it was a choice I'd made
and I had to own it.
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I'd made that choice to go to England
and I couldn't turn back.
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When he arrived at Arsenal,
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he was with a very charismatic
group of players,
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whether it was the old-school like
Ian Wright, Ray Parlour and Tony Adams.
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This is the Arsenal, this is
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one of the, you know, the founding,
driving forces of the game,
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woven into the tapestry
of English football,
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with fans who are just totally passionate,
who live all around the ground,
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who live all over the world.
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It wasn't easy for him at first
because he was a true Parisian kid
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who, overnight, was thrown
into a very English environment.
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Everything was new:
my teammates, the language...
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Fortunately, there was Pat.
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Pat Vieira.
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He didn't have his driver's licence yet,
so I used to pick him up.
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We'd go to training together.
Afterwards, I'd drop him back home.
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I tried to get closer to him
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because when you leave France
to go and play in a foreign country,
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you lose your bearings.
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It's very different to French football:
a lot of impact, a lot of contact.
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And so, I had to adapt.
I had to change my game a bit.
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I wasn't combat-ready...
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so I had to learn the ropes
with the reserve team.
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He arrived thinking he was a great player,
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as youngsters often do.
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But, in my eyes,
he lacked maturity and physically...
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He lost the ball too much.
He was a little reckless in his game.
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The first few months, I didn't play.
Just 10-15 minutes in a few games.
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It wasn't great.
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It makes you doubt.
You wonder if you made the right call.
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DERBY
ENGLAND
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Then came the last game
of the championship,
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an away game against Derby County.
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Everyone was on the bus.
No Nicolas Anelka.
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The coach was waiting for me.
He came to get me.
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I knocked on the door. He let me in...
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and I saw he was packing his bags!
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I asked, "What are you doing?"
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-He said...
-I don't want to come.
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The coach talked to me and said:
"Make an effort and it will pay off."
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And after 20 minutes, half an hour...
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I managed to convince him.
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The game started.
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After five or ten minutes of play,
I think Paul Merson got injured.
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The coach looked back and said to me:
"Go ahead, you're on."
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Bergkamp...
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And I set up two goals.
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Oh, lovely little touch. Ball through...
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And that's gonna be number three!
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He played a fantastic game!
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I was Man of the Match.
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We won the game,
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he had a shower and,
unlike the day before, he was smiling.
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It just clicked.
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As a striker, you need that,
even if you're mentally tough.
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You need to feel your coach
will be there for you.
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In tough times, he'll be there
and he'll put you back on,
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even if your last game was average.
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Arsène was there for me
and I could feel it.
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Just knowing that, you give it your all
and generally you succeed
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because, mentally, it changes things.
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Anelka...
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Oh, what a goal!
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Nicolas Anelka's first for the club!
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Anelka against Jaap Stam...
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Still Anelka! Three-nil!
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He was replacing Ian Wright,
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who is embedded not simply
in the fabric of Arsenal football club,
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but in the hearts of every Arsenal fan.
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Anelka... Oh, that's a great goal!
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We were 13 points
behind Manchester United.
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No one thought we could claw it back.
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Petit... Batty trying to stem the flow...
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This is Nicolas Anelka and he's done it!
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He absolutely transformed
in the space of six months.
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It was at Blackburn.
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He reached the goalkeeper,
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did his signature fake shot
where he almost bends his knee.
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Then he did a step over
and the goalkeeper was stunned.
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Like he was invisible.
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He's like a cat.
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He's a guy who had
both strength and flexibility.
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It's still Anelka.
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I'll always remember
the game against Manchester.
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Arsenal arrive here with a record
of just one defeat in 18 games
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in all competitions.
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The game was close.
We absolutely had to win.
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I diverted the ball to Marc Overmars.
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Oh, it's Overmars!
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He's done it this time!
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We won 1-0 against Manchester...
at Manchester.
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The championship race
still very much open.
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The situation ended
driving Arsenal back into it
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against a very good Manchester United side
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purely because of his self-belief,
because he just didn't feel pressure.
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The crowning game was at Highbury.
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And it's Adams!
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Tony Adams scored the decisive goal.
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Would you believe it?
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Final whistle!
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Arsenal are the champions!
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It was something special.
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But the truth is, when you're 19,
you don't realise that.
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You don't realise what you're doing.
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00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,120
The classic double is to win the League
and to win the Cup.
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For an English fan, for an English player,
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for anyone growing up
with any understanding of English sport,
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that is the bar,
that is absolutely the pinnacle.
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CUP FINAL
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Vieira...
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Anelka... Onside...
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Anelka's away... Good strike!
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We were the champions.
I scored in the Cup Final.
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It was the ultimate dream.
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I felt I had every chance
of playing in the World Cup.
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Six too many.
We were expecting 22 players.
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00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:17,680
Aimé Jacquet has published
a list of 28 names
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for the World Cup in early June,
which he's going to have to cut down.
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FRANCE HOSTS THE 1998 WORLD CUP.
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NICOLAS ANELKA IS ONE
OF THE 28 PLAYERS SHORTLISTED,
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BUT MANAGER AIMÉ JACQUET
STILL HAS TO CUT 6.
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We knew that some players
wouldn't make the squad
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because Aimé had announced it.
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He'd selected six extra players,
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but was going to have
to present a final list.
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00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,640
Yesterday was a long day for Jacquet.
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Late afternoon, after training,
he paced up and down the pitch alone.
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Well, almost, as facing him were
20-odd players waiting for his decision.
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00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:57,400
It's great to be
on the France team aged 19,
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but I'd be disappointed to miss out
on a big event like the World Cup.
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It was an honour to wear
the France jersey, yes.
374
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,040
But there was always a "but".
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I could feel something wasn't quite right.
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That day, I was in my room with Thierry.
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The phone rang
and they asked me to come down.
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I went downstairs
and headed to the coach's room.
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I think I was the second or third
to show up. We were in a line.
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And he explained to each player why.
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Why he hadn't been called up,
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why he wouldn't be part
of the World Cup adventure.
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00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,800
And when he got to me,
he just said: "You, it's normal."
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"You, it's normal."
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And he moved on.
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Of course, decisions are hard.
They can even be cruel.
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But we live in a cruel world.
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I don't know if those guys realise
what it actually means
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or the effect it can have on a youngster
to say: "You, it's normal"
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00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:09,720
with no explanation.
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00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:14,120
If you're mentally weak,
it could kill your career.
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00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,160
At Clairefontaine,
we were playing at the ping-pong table,
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and we saw Nico come down
the stairs opposite with his bags.
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He was totally relaxed and cool.
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He was like: "No biggie. I have time
to get my driver's license now."
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00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,720
And I just thought to myself:
"This guy is crazy!"
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His reaction stunned me.
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00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,160
That's when I thought: "Nico Anelka
is totally different to the others,
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and especially, different to me."
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00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:45,480
I saw them leave. Some were crying,
tears in their eyes.
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Just imagine, a month and a half later,
we were on top of the world
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and they were watching TV, thinking:
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00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,120
"I probably missed
the most important day of my life".
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00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,320
France are world champions!
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00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,320
A historic night...
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00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,080
"Historic" is indeed
the most understated term to sum up
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00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,880
what's been happening
since last night in France.
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00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,680
Zidane! Zidane!
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ZIDANE FOR PRESIDENT
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More than a million people
gathered in Paris.
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A true moment of madness
for an ecstatic nation.
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It makes you stronger
because you see it as an injustice...
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so you know you have to overcome it.
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00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:37,440
You have to work twice as hard
to make a comeback
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because you don't change a winning team.
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8 MONTHS LATER, NICOLAS ANELKA SCORES
TWO HISTORIC GOALS FOR FRANCE.
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LONDON
ENGLAND
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Lilian Thuram crosses the halfway line.
Passes to Zidane.
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Zidane controls the ball,
passes to Anelka... Anelka! Goal!
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Nicolas Anelka, the Arsenal player,
opens the score!
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00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,400
Nicolas Anelka becomes the first Frenchman
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to score against England at Wembley.
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Dugarry to Zidane. Zidane to Dugarry.
Dugarry in the penalty area.
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00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:10,200
Christophe Dugarry crosses forward,
and second goal!
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00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:14,040
Second goal by Nicolas Anelka
here at Wembley. France lead 2-0.
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It's historic. It's doubly historic!
427
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,320
Very good. Perfect.
428
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:25,120
I think he's very talented,
as shown tonight.
429
00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,640
Long may it continue
for France and for him.
430
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:30,840
All of a sudden, this player showed up
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00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:35,080
and made a connection
in the game with Zidane,
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God on Earth, so we all thought: "Wow!
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00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,000
We're on our way
to five or six more years of triumph."
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00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:42,600
SON OF TRAPPES...
...AND KING OF ENGLAND
435
00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,440
I would have preferred to be part
of the team that won the World Cup,
436
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,480
but that's just life.
437
00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:52,080
It's something
you have to overcome, and I did.
438
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,240
DUBAI
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
439
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,160
What I did in my life
and what I did in football...
440
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:08,040
it's all well and good,
but the most important thing is family.
441
00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,920
-Which one is it?
-Which one is what?
442
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,000
I'm lucky to have had parents
who brought me up well,
443
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,000
so I'm trying to do the same,
444
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,800
to reproduce what I experienced
with my own children.
445
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:24,960
Let's see if there's a pitch.
446
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,200
They haven't seen me play much.
447
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:33,080
I didn't take them to games very often.
I didn't want to force them.
448
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,200
Watch. Like this... Tack.
449
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,600
That's it! Again.
450
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:43,120
I didn't want them to be footballers
because it's a tough job
451
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:44,720
and you've got to have talent.
452
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:50,520
They both play football.
Kais, a little more seriously.
453
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,480
Kahil, more for fun.
454
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,560
He loves taking them to practice,
waiting for them, going to games...
455
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:09,040
Learn some technical moves.
I didn't see any at training.
456
00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:10,000
Zero.
457
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,200
You play like you train.
458
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,040
If you're rubbish in training,
you'll be rubbish in the game.
459
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:18,400
That's how it is.
460
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,160
If you don't work outside of training,
if you don't do anything extra...
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00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,240
you'll be rubbish, you'll be no good.
462
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:26,880
That's all.
463
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,520
Don't tell me: "I wanna be a footballer."
Footballers are real players.
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00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:34,720
It's a real job.
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00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:40,800
MADRID
SPAIN
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00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:44,800
Anelka has expressed his desire
to leave the Premier League.
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00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:51,200
In today's sports news, French striker
Anelka's transfer to Real Madrid.
468
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,720
He was approached by Real Madrid.
469
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:57,680
Juventus were also very interested.
470
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,560
After two and a half years,
Arsenal didn't want to sell me.
471
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:04,320
I'd scored a certain number of goals.
472
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,120
But it was time for me
to join a better club.
473
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,960
Lazio in Rome have offered
200 million francs
474
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:12,960
and Juventus in Torino, 300.
475
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:14,800
But talks have collapsed.
476
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,280
Anelka's entourage seem
to have been too greedy.
477
00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:21,600
He got a lot of criticism for taking
the advice of his brothers.
478
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:23,080
I don't know what they were like.
479
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:26,600
I don't know whether they were motivated
by materialistic things
480
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,040
or whether they said to him:
"What is best for your development?"
481
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:35,560
My brother could manage my finances,
since he was an accounting professor.
482
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,120
And my other brother played for PFC,
which was in Third Division at the time.
483
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:44,040
So, why ask someone else,
a stranger, to handle my career?
484
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:47,160
It's funny, when you come
from the banlieue or the streets,
485
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,520
they call it a clan, maybe even a sect.
486
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,920
But when it's people who don't come
from the streets, it's "family".
487
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,400
Why a "clan"?
488
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:59,440
Maybe because,
when Nicolas wanted to leave PSG,
489
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,280
we pushed hard for it,
so people talked about a clan.
490
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,160
Clans are closed and tough.
491
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,440
But it's also what made us stronger.
492
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,560
They symbolised what the football
business was going to become.
493
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,480
The Anelkas were like
a little family-run grocery business,
494
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:22,280
surrounded by big supermarkets
gorging themselves on money.
495
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,880
People said his brothers
were manipulating him.
496
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:27,440
But from the age of 20,
Anelka was making his own decisions.
497
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,120
He decided to leave for England
because he wasn't playing in Paris.
498
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,160
He decided to leave Arsenal
when his brothers asked him to stay.
499
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,200
Real Madrid are one
of the best clubs in the world,
500
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:41,640
and when they come after you,
you don't go for the money.
501
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:46,080
It's because, with their seven or eight
Champions League titles at the time,
502
00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:47,440
they were number one.
503
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,120
-Be careful!
-Nicolas!
504
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,280
Come on.
505
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,680
Madrid was madness.
A lot of press, a lot of fans.
506
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,080
Be careful.
507
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:58,680
Come on.
508
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,280
It's Real Madrid's
most expensive transfer.
509
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,400
We hope in this way to secure
the club's footballing future.
510
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,120
At 220 million francs,
it was the biggest transfer of all time.
511
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,680
It was Mbappé and Neymar combined.
512
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:14,960
I didn't expect there to be
this many people here for me.
513
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,720
But I'm very happy
to be welcomed like this.
514
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:24,560
I understood what it meant
to be a star when I joined Real Madrid.
515
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,680
And I hated it.
516
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:33,560
Anelka had his first training session
and met his new teammates.
517
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:38,080
The player stirred up passion
in a packed Ciudad Deportiva.
518
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,160
After the press conference,
I went to the locker room.
519
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:45,000
I got there first, sat down,
but players kept coming up to me
520
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,160
and saying: "That's my spot."
"Oh, sorry. Can I sit here?"
521
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:49,920
"Yeah, go ahead, sit there."
522
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,200
Then another player would come up:
"That's my spot." Maybe 20 times.
523
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,160
He barely got anyone to lend him
any kit for his first training session.
524
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:01,360
Imagine Neymar showing up at PSG
and his kit not being there.
525
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,200
It was dog eat dog.
526
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,680
I just thought: "What am I doing here?
527
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,240
This is going to be hostile."
528
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,280
What I experienced that day was
the beginning of a nightmare.
529
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,160
One of today's top stories...
530
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,920
Everyone is eager to see Anelka's debut.
531
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,040
For football's sake,
he'd better not disappoint.
532
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,760
It was a lot of pressure,
right from the start.
533
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,080
I could tell because,
in the Spanish press, in MARCA,
534
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,320
every day, I saw my name or a photo of me.
535
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,840
An unmemorable debut
for La Liga's most expensive player.
536
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:48,360
Eighteen goals for Arsenal last year,
and nothing yet in La Liga.
537
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:50,800
On the pitch, things weren't great.
538
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:54,800
Because I couldn't have a private life.
I couldn't do anything.
539
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:56,960
You're 20, you can't go outside.
540
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,000
Everything you do is commented on.
541
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,120
Everything you buy is
in the newspapers the next day.
542
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:08,000
We had to secure his home
as journalists could film from outside.
543
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,280
It was horrible. For everyone.
544
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:11,960
He would lock himself in.
545
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,920
Even we were like...
curtains drawn all day.
546
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,320
It was just unbearable.
547
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,560
I even had a panic attack,
which I'd never had before.
548
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,720
Screaming, shouting like a maniac.
549
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,080
At one point, I even thought
he was going to quit football.
550
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,200
ANELKA IS DEPRESSED
551
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,160
ANELKA IS SUFFERING
IS ANELKA A FRAUD?
552
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,000
When you get to Real Madrid,
they expect a lot of you.
553
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,160
In the press, they ask you to open up.
But I wasn't open.
554
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,080
Maybe that's something
that carried a lot of weight
555
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,800
because I pretty much
wasn't accepted on the team.
556
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,880
I was very average on the pitch.
557
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:49,840
The press wasn't on my side.
558
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,520
MADRID
SPAIN - MARCA OFFICES
559
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,280
I was invited to the MARCA offices.
560
00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:00,520
I went to give them something
because I didn't usually talk to them.
561
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,080
For the photo, the journalist asked him:
"Will you play a FIFA game?"
562
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,360
I played and I scored on the console.
Against Atlético, I think.
563
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,080
The next day's headline was:
"Anelka finally scores a goal...
564
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:12,280
on the console."
565
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:13,800
HIS FIRST DERBY... HIS FIRST GOAL
566
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,400
It was a press trap.
I just didn't get it, back then.
567
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,880
Looking back... I messed up,
568
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:25,240
but I didn't think they'd be that vicious.
569
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,320
After that, I thought:
"OK, cool. This is how it is.
570
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,560
I was going to give you something
when I don't usually give anything.
571
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,080
I took a step in your direction,
and you slapped me in the face.
572
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,120
No problem. You won't get anything."
573
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:44,560
BRAZIL
CLUB WORLD CUP
574
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:46,680
5 MONTHS AFTER HIS ARRIVAL,
575
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,600
NICOLAS ANELKA STILL HASN'T SCORED
FOR REAL MADRID.
576
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:51,680
Going to Brazil for the Club World Cup,
577
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,120
far from all that pressure
and all the media,
578
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,680
practically incognito,
gave me a new lease of life.
579
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,480
In a country like Brazil,
580
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,880
being co-best striker
with a football legend like Romário...
581
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,480
I'll take that.
582
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,639
When you're number nine,
you need competition.
583
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,639
You need people to trust you...
584
00:34:22,159 --> 00:34:23,920
...in order to give your best.
585
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,520
MADRID
SPAIN
586
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,719
This week,
it's the Barça-Real Madrid match.
587
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,600
An event always described
as the match of all matches.
588
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,080
Morientes now. Madrid could score...
589
00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:43,120
-Goal. Goal from Anelka.
-Goal from Anelka!
590
00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:44,960
I scored, so I was really happy.
591
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,960
Goal for Real Madrid. A really
important goal for the club in white!
592
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,239
In the next game, I was average.
593
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,679
After that, they benched me.
594
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:59,760
So, one day, I turned up to training
and said: "We've got to talk."
595
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:02,560
They said: "We'll talk after training."
596
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,520
I said: "No, we'll talk before training."
597
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,320
They insisted:
"No, we'll talk after training."
598
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,360
The way they reacted... I took it badly.
599
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,600
I thought: "You have a bad attitude.
Now it's my turn to have a bad attitude."
600
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,160
I went to war when,
in truth, I just wanted to talk.
601
00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:23,400
I was stuck in this banlieue mentality
and I was far from docile.
602
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:25,800
OK. Clash.
603
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:30,160
An astonishing statement
from Madrid player Nicolas Anelka.
604
00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:31,960
The French player, without warning...
605
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,200
...refused to train with his teammates.
606
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,240
I skipped training and got called in
by one of the Real Madrid presidents.
607
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:41,360
We talked and he said:
"You'd better be at training tomorrow."
608
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:43,960
I replied:
"We'll see about that tomorrow."
609
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,680
He refused to train yesterday.
610
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,520
He was supposed to be
at Ciudad Deportiva at 11 a.m. today.
611
00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,280
Instead, he gave
an interview to French television
612
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,400
and played football in his garden,
as you can see here.
613
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:03,040
Lorenzo Sanz and Real Madrid
are facing a serious problem.
614
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:07,400
Once again, they put it all on me,
when all I wanted, all I was asking for,
615
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,680
was for them to leave me alone
and let me focus on my football,
616
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:17,040
to try and prove that I was talented
and that I could play for Real Madrid.
617
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:21,840
Every time there was a power struggle,
Nicolas was inevitably on the wrong side.
618
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,000
He went on strike.
619
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,280
He said: "No, I'm not training.
I want you to explain."
620
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,520
But instead of explaining, they said:
"We'll talk after training."
621
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:34,360
Which prompted his famous quote:
"I'd rather go and sell TVs at Currys."
622
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:35,920
I admire him for that.
623
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,880
The person he is, before the athlete.
624
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,640
There's this thing he used to repeat
a lot that made me laugh:
625
00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:44,080
"I'm a guy from Trappes."
626
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,520
NICOLAS ANELKA IS SUSPENDED FOR 45 DAYS
AND FINED 350,000 EUROS.
627
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,600
HE USES THIS TIME TO GO HOME TO TRAPPES.
628
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,320
It's been a while since I saw Paris.
629
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:58,680
I'm happy to be back.
630
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,920
I'm going to see my family and friends,
have a bit of fun.
631
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,000
He's a decent guy.
632
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:08,440
Honest.
633
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:10,840
Faithful.
634
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,720
He shows true loyalty.
635
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,680
He can be excessive at times
because he's impulsive,
636
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:21,080
like all guys who bottle up
what's troubling them.
637
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,080
And when they blow up,
they often go further than they mean to.
638
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,760
As a result, they often get pigeonholed.
639
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:33,920
AFTER APOLOGISING,
NICOLAS ANELKA RESUMES TRAINING.
640
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:40,200
Going back to training was really tough
because the players were against me.
641
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,320
A lot of them were out to get me
on the pitch, but I came from England.
642
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:45,920
I knew all about physical combat.
643
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:51,480
There were little fights
and duels out on the pitch,
644
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,880
but everything fell back
into place after that.
645
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:58,240
MADRID
SPAIN
646
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,600
A big Champions League game tonight.
Bayern Munich will face Real Madrid.
647
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,520
Semifinals are special
because everyone watches.
648
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,520
You can change everything,
reverse the tide.
649
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,000
The ball into Anelka,
he's in the right place
650
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:14,960
and Real Madrid has scored!
651
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,760
Huge satisfaction because I was also
selected for the Champions League.
652
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,440
He was decisive against Bayern,
in the first and second legs,
653
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:29,000
and in horrible conditions because,
two months earlier,
654
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,160
everyone at Real Madrid had him
on the bench.
655
00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:32,720
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMI-FINAL
SECOND LEG
656
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:36,960
MWAH
657
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:38,160
KISSES
658
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:40,040
ANELKA'S BIG NIGHT
659
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:41,240
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL
660
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,920
Welcome to the Spanish football party
in Paris!
661
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,560
The Champions League final!
662
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:49,840
Nicolas Anelka with the ball...
663
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,000
Anelka again passing behind...
664
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:56,280
The ball for Michel
and now Morientes! Goal!
665
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,320
It's almost over.
Real Madrid will be European champions!
666
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,600
The 24th May 2000!
667
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:07,760
A historic day for Madrid.
That's it! It's over!
668
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,040
Nicolas Anelka, whose name
was chanted by Real Madrid socios
669
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:14,880
as he walked off the pitch
and during the cup ceremony...
670
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,640
Now we can truly say
that Madrid holds "La Octava"!
671
00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:22,560
I helped Real Madrid win
their eighth Champions League.
672
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:24,320
I'm proud of that.
673
00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,320
Given that it was hardly
a piece of cake to begin with,
674
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,640
beyond the whole football
side of things, it was personal.
675
00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:32,440
It was a very sweet revenge.
676
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,480
I didn't do much.
I did very little at Real Madrid.
677
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,320
I would have liked to do much more,
but I didn't get the chance.
678
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,360
I also wasn't good. A lot happened.
679
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:42,920
A lot of regret.
680
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,840
With hindsight,
if you want to play for Real Madrid,
681
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,880
sacrifices need to be made,
but I was too young to understand.
682
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,840
There are things
I shouldn't have said or done.
683
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,080
But when you're the first to do something,
684
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:54,960
you don't know.
685
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,480
It was very early in my career.
Maybe too early.
686
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,600
I didn't appreciate that moment
for what it was really worth.
687
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,160
I didn't know it was the only one
I'd win, for example.
688
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,000
I think it's at 30
that you get the measure of it.
689
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:10,920
You understand
what the Champions League is.
690
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,360
You know it's difficult
and everyone wants to win it.
691
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:17,560
You enjoy it very differently
to when you're 20.
692
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,520
I don't know what this is.
693
00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:23,200
But I do know what this is.
694
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:26,120
It's a little rusty, but...
695
00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:30,040
Yeah.
696
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:32,560
The Champions League? Here it is.
697
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,680
Real Madrid. 2000-2001, I think.
698
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:38,320
Well done.
699
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:40,040
No, it was 1999-2000.
700
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:41,280
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
701
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,680
-1999-2000?
-Yeah. Yeah, it's...
702
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,720
And I won it in 2002-2004.
703
00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:47,920
Two years in a row.
704
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:54,520
IN JUNE 2000, NICOLAS ANELKA PLAYS
HIS FIRST BIG COMPETITION WITH FRANCE:
705
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:58,640
THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP.
706
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,880
I'd just won the Champions League.
707
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,200
I was happy to be back
on the France squad.
708
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,040
In 1998, we won at home.
We were world champions.
709
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,360
It's great to win a World Cup at home,
but you've got to follow through.
710
00:41:12,680 --> 00:41:15,960
And there were those two youngsters
from the Paris banlieue
711
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,640
and Clairefontaine playing as forwards
with the France team.
712
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,480
And the ball went to Anelka here
who'll check and turn...
713
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:29,160
And it's an equaliser scored
by Thierry Henry!
714
00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:32,320
I arrived in average shape.
715
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:36,040
I didn't really have the stamina
to play game after game.
716
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,360
He played a lot of games,
but not the final,
717
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:44,440
and people remember Pirès and Wiltord,
who at the time were substitutes.
718
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:45,880
ROTTERDAM
NETHERLANDS
719
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,800
Kick-off
at the European Championships final.
720
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:50,680
France takes on Italy.
721
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,960
Double contact. Pirès passes
to Trezeguet who strikes!
722
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:55,080
Yeah!
723
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:56,760
Trezeguet!
724
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,240
Golden goal!
725
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:01,320
Phenomenal!
726
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,240
For me, the Euro 2000 is the pinnacle.
727
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,560
I don't want to be arrogant,
but we were unbeatable.
728
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,560
It feels good when you play well.
729
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,360
When you're rubbish
or you don't play great...
730
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:25,400
I'm a footballer.
731
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,480
I wasn't there to have fun.
732
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,720
I was there to perform on the pitch.
And I didn't.
733
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:36,040
Yes, I took part,
but I didn't contribute anything.
734
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:40,000
If I could remove that title
from my awards, I would. No doubt.
735
00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:45,400
Winning at all costs has no meaning
for him. It's how you win.
736
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:53,520
He's not capable of pretending
he's happy if he's not.
737
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,560
He is who he is. He's himself.
And I'm the exact opposite.
738
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,520
I can give you a big smile
even if I'm sad.
739
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,240
I met him fairly young, yes. He was 19.
740
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:14,680
I'm older than him. I was 21.
741
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:19,320
We were young. He was into his football
and I was into my dancing.
742
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,640
It was back when there was
the big Arsenal-Madrid transfer,
743
00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:28,080
so for me it was a little...
744
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,640
I didn't really know what was going on.
745
00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:34,400
When I went to visit him,
there were loads of journalists outside.
746
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:37,840
We've been together
for more than ten years.
747
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,000
It's important to be partners
and friends with your wife.
748
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,480
If you want to spend pretty much
your whole life with her,
749
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:49,720
if you don't have that bond
of friendship and love,
750
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:50,760
it won't work.
751
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,080
I think that's the foundation
of any relationship.
752
00:43:56,240 --> 00:43:57,120
Yes!
753
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:06,080
Nice one! It's ours. Yes!
754
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,000
We know he doesn't know
how to return the ball.
755
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,200
Go for him. That's his weak point.
756
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:13,640
Place your foot like this.
757
00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:15,120
Go for it.
758
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:16,840
Well done. That's it!
759
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:17,880
I never imagined this.
760
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,520
I'm moving forward, we have a family,
761
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,760
a family life and children
who are growing up...
762
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:25,280
Nice one!
763
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:26,640
Leave it!
764
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:29,800
And, yeah, we've grown up.
765
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:43,600
Children are something special.
766
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:47,080
They change your life.
You don't live for yourself anymore.
767
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:47,960
You live for them.
768
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:49,720
Can I get a kiss?
769
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:51,600
A sandy kiss?
770
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,440
Being able to tell them "I love you"
every day is dope
771
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:58,920
because I don't want them to forget that.
772
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:04,280
I want them to be able to tell me
"I love you, too" when they grow up.
773
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:08,160
-You OK?
-Yeah.
774
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,040
Because with my own parents,
for example, I had...
775
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,360
We have a lot of trouble
saying "I love you" to each other,
776
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,040
with my father and mother, you know, so...
777
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,600
I just wanted to...
778
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:24,320
I think it, but it's hard to express it.
779
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:25,640
It's complicated.
780
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,440
Maybe it's something I've lacked
since I was little.
781
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,040
And...
782
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:41,280
precisely because of that,
I wanted to do things...
783
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:44,240
differently.
784
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,960
I wanted to show my children
what I felt and what I thought
785
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:52,280
so that they won't be ashamed
or hold back from telling me.
786
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:56,760
And I hope that when they, hopefully,
have children of their own,
787
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,720
they'll do the same because it's beautiful
when you can tell your child...
788
00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:04,600
that you love them
and they say, "I love you, too."
789
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,440
There's nothing more beautiful.
790
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:15,720
NICOLAS ANELKA LEAVES REAL MADRID IN 2000
AND RETURNS TO PSG FOR 35 MILLION EUROS,
791
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,080
THE BIGGEST FRENCH TRANSFER AT THE TIME.
792
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:22,600
AFTER A COMPLICATED SEASON AND A HALF,
HE JOINS LIVERPOOL IN ENGLAND.
793
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:26,000
LIVERPOOL
ENGLAND
794
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:28,680
Nicolas Anelka triumphs
in the British media
795
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:30,600
following his arrival at Liverpool.
796
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,120
Liverpool, a historic club,
the city of the Beatles...
797
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:37,720
It might not be the most beautiful city,
but it exudes a unique atmosphere.
798
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,600
And the coach was French, too,
Gérard Houllier.
799
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:44,680
Heskey lets it run to Murphy...
800
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:45,800
Anelka!
801
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,240
Liverpool are level!
802
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,720
He got to Liverpool: "Shit, Doug,
I've found what I've been looking for."
803
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,600
Everything was perfect:
the city, the spirit...
804
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,880
The fans were really happy with me,
and I was really happy to be there.
805
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,680
Nicolas Anelka! Yes!
806
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:04,480
English football is wonderful.
It's made for me. It made me feel alive.
807
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,640
Michael Owen...
looking for Anelka again...
808
00:47:07,720 --> 00:47:11,720
You could feel it in my game.
I could lead a normal life.
809
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:13,160
Number five!
810
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:17,560
It was the perfect club for me.
It could have helped me bounce back.
811
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,280
Anelka has his first League goal...
812
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:21,040
But at the end of the season...
813
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:22,360
nothing happened.
814
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,840
No opportunity to sign with Liverpool.
815
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,320
I was playing good games,
so there were teams interested in me.
816
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:31,120
Another disappointment for Nicolas Anelka.
817
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:32,880
Liverpool manager, Gérard Houllier,
818
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:36,520
has decided not to keep
Nicolas Anelka next season.
819
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:42,080
I didn't like that, whilst at Liverpool
with a purchase option to play with us,
820
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:48,240
his brothers tried
to contact other clubs to sell him.
821
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:51,120
I didn't appreciate that.
I didn't think it was fair play.
822
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:55,280
That open door, it was for you.
It was for Liverpool.
823
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:59,080
And I said it time and again
that I wanted to sign with Liverpool.
824
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,240
I waited, but nothing happened.
825
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:05,080
Liverpool fans think
I didn't want to stay, but no.
826
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:09,000
That wasn't the case.
They need to know I really did.
827
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:15,040
And that's why, for me,
it was quite a tragic episode
828
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:16,880
because, honestly,
829
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:21,280
it's a club where I think
I could have achieved many things.
830
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:22,520
Many great things.
831
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:28,400
Things went wrong, but for reasons
that had nothing to do with football.
832
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:32,280
It was more about cultural differences.
833
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,240
Nico is a man of contradictions.
834
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,520
His reserve can make him seem cold.
835
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:39,720
Some interpret it as arrogance.
836
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:44,520
He's very resilient,
with an extremely strong personality,
837
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:48,600
especially when it comes to imposing
or asserting his own opinions.
838
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:55,520
It can go against collective thinking
or even a certain hierarchy.
839
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:58,440
MANCHESTER
ENGLAND
840
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,840
In football news, Nicolas Anelka's
ratings just keep dropping.
841
00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:05,360
PSG are in talks with two Manchester clubs
842
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,680
for a transfer estimated
at less than 20 million euros.
843
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,880
Despite my good results
and performance with Liverpool,
844
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:14,960
no one was interested,
the doors were closed.
845
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,840
I signed at Manchester City,
and thought: "You're here.
846
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:19,960
No one else wanted you.
847
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:22,120
Just go for it."
848
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,920
Fowler... Wright-Phillips...
Nicolas Anelka!
849
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,040
Manchester City have won it!
850
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:36,520
Rejected by Gérard Houllier,
this is Nicolas Anelka's response!
851
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:39,800
I scored goals, I was good,
I got to know Kevin Keegan, the coach,
852
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,520
whom I had a good relationship with,
I made progress.
853
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:46,440
In a team with players that aren't
as good, you have to score.
854
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,920
You have to do something
for people to see you and say:
855
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:51,840
"He doesn't belong in that team."
856
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,040
Nicolas Anelka's problem
857
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,520
is that of all youngsters
who succeed at a young age.
858
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,480
When you're a star
at 18, 19, 20 years old,
859
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,560
you can be satisfied with too little.
860
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:05,680
Maybe he was also in environments
that discouraged him.
861
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:08,600
That said, he had a great career.
Let's be fair.
862
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,000
But if you were to ask me,
deep in my heart:
863
00:50:11,080 --> 00:50:14,640
"Do you think there was more to him
than that?" Yes. Without a doubt.
864
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:18,160
NICOLAS ANELKA IS NOT CALLED UP
FOR THE 2002 WORLD CUP.
865
00:50:18,240 --> 00:50:19,360
A FEW MONTHS LATER,
866
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:23,000
NEW MANAGER JACQUES SANTINI
COMES TO MEET HIM IN MANCHESTER.
867
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,360
Once again, there was just so much drama.
868
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:30,360
At the time,
Jacques Santini came to see me
869
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,040
at a game against United, the derby.
870
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:41,440
I played a great game. I scored.
We won 3-1, I think.
871
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,440
...for Manchester City,
it comes out to Anelka!
872
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:51,040
Jacques Santini came to see me
in the locker room and said:
873
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:54,400
"If I don't select you for the next team,
it's because I don't know you."
874
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:56,720
Man, don't come and see me, then.
875
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:01,600
If you don't know me, I've played at PSG,
I've played at Arsenal,
876
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:05,960
I've played at Real Madrid,
I've played at Liverpool...
877
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:07,960
You're telling me you don't know me?
878
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:13,040
No. You have no right to come
and tell me that. So, I took it badly.
879
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:17,800
I made it clear, when he called me back,
that he should leave me alone.
880
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:23,840
Nicolas Anelka has rejected a call-up
to the France team.
881
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,760
Jacques Santini called him back
to play against Yugoslavia
882
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:28,400
on Wednesday at the Stade de France,
883
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:33,160
but the Manchester City player feels
that his selection was a little forced.
884
00:51:33,240 --> 00:51:34,240
He made clear that
885
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,480
"he'll have to get down on his knees
for me to play for France again."
886
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:40,200
He has mortgaged his future
on the France team.
887
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:43,840
If he thinks we don't trust him,
starting with me,
888
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:48,920
then Nicolas Anelka has made
a decision that, if confirmed,
889
00:51:49,240 --> 00:51:54,560
concerns only him,
and not his teammates or the manager.
890
00:51:55,880 --> 00:52:00,160
When everyone was waiting
for a refutation or an apology,
891
00:52:00,240 --> 00:52:01,200
he stayed quiet.
892
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:05,160
Because he's tough and he stays on course.
893
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,600
When he sets out to do something,
he does it.
894
00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:10,320
And people don't understand that.
895
00:52:12,720 --> 00:52:14,840
Nicolas Anelka is viewed
by most as a player
896
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:16,840
who gets into trouble with his coaches.
897
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:18,160
He's a man of controversy.
898
00:52:18,240 --> 00:52:22,200
And the biggest scandal of his career
happened while he was playing in England
899
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:25,000
for a mid-table club:
West Bromwich Albion.
900
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:30,560
BIRMINGHAM
ENGLAND
901
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:33,880
I was back with a coach I knew:
Steve Clarke.
902
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,520
He was cool when I was with him
at Chelsea, so I thought: "Why not?"
903
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:40,320
The first game arrived.
904
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,440
We were eagerly awaited.
It was a home game.
905
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:46,680
It was 0-0 and after 70 minutes,
906
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:47,920
Steve Clarke took me out.
907
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:50,560
I was kind of the star of the team.
908
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:53,200
I scored all the goals in the preseason.
909
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:56,520
Taking me out like that was
a way of showing the public
910
00:52:56,600 --> 00:53:00,160
that it was 0-0 because
the striker hadn't done anything.
911
00:53:00,240 --> 00:53:03,200
It shows a lack of respect
and a lack of trust.
912
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:07,560
When you're 34 and the coach does this
to you in the very first game...
913
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:09,360
I just stopped talking to him.
914
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,720
I thought: "If you're going to play
that game, no problem."
915
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:14,000
He didn't use me.
916
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:15,640
What happened is what always happens.
917
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,200
You play the wise guy,
but sometimes you get burned.
918
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:20,360
Five games, five defeats.
919
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:21,960
Ciao.
920
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:30,800
I was back on the team, and my first game
after Clarke left... I scored.
921
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:35,360
So, I did that celebration.
922
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:39,640
People don't know this because I never
wanted to talk about Steve Clarke,
923
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:44,120
but when I did the quenelle,
it was for him.
924
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:48,400
"You didn't use me when you were here.
925
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:52,000
As soon as you left, look:
I played and I scored.
926
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:53,520
Take that.
927
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:56,720
Shove it where the sun doesn't shine."
928
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:00,520
During the game, the footballer
made the famous quenelle gesture,
929
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:02,120
popularised by Dieudonné.
930
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,400
A gesture of defiance?
931
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,480
A gesture linked to the Nazis?
932
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:10,080
An anti-Semitic gesture?
933
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,680
I lived in Birmingham.
I didn't have French TV.
934
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:16,160
I had the internet,
but I didn't really notice.
935
00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:18,440
I wasn't aware of what was going on.
936
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:22,320
Dieudonné is anti-Semitic.
François Hollande has no doubt about it.
937
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:23,600
He supports Manuel Valls.
938
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:27,120
The Interior Minister wants
to ban the comedian's shows.
939
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,040
ANTI-SEMITISM
DIEUDONNÉ'S BUSINESS
940
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:33,920
A few French journalists I follow said:
"He's just done the quenelle."
941
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,160
And West Brom picked up on it.
942
00:54:36,240 --> 00:54:38,800
Their PR people realised
it was going to be a huge issue.
943
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,920
Before this weekend, the British
had never heard of Dieudonné
944
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,200
or the quenelle.
945
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:47,480
The affair is nonetheless
making headlines,
946
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:50,600
with one word recurring
again and again: "shocking".
947
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,160
When I was accused
of making an anti-Semitic gesture,
948
00:54:53,240 --> 00:54:55,360
I denied it because it wasn't the case.
949
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:57,200
For me, it was anything but.
950
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:58,520
So, I was surprised...
951
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,800
but it's good to call people out.
952
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:04,280
OK, so be it.
953
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:06,040
Prove it to me.
954
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,720
This was a time in English football
when the Football Association
955
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:13,600
were having to deal with a lot of issues,
on-the-pitch issues,
956
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:16,720
racial abuse between players.
957
00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:18,680
The FA had to take action.
958
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:21,680
Sanctions were imposed
on Nicolas Anelka yesterday,
959
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,880
a five-match suspension
and a 100,000-euro fine,
960
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,400
by the English Football Association.
961
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:28,840
We had two days of hearings.
962
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:35,080
The verdict:
I am not anti-Semitic, but the gesture is.
963
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:39,200
And I was punished
with a five-game ban and a fine.
964
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:42,240
We all know why.
Because there had to be sanctions.
965
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,000
But the reality is that I wasn't guilty.
966
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:47,680
Not a single prior incident
with Jewish people.
967
00:55:48,600 --> 00:55:52,720
Why would I think
about Jewish people after a goal?
968
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:54,840
Why?
969
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:59,000
It's a bit exaggerated to charge him.
970
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:02,520
It's not as if it was made
in front of a synagogue
971
00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:06,480
or in front of a memorial
concerning the Holocaust.
972
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:09,160
They said it themselves.
I am not anti-Semitic.
973
00:56:09,240 --> 00:56:13,320
So, if I'm not anti-Semitic,
that's it, case closed.
974
00:56:23,240 --> 00:56:26,640
I've always lived my life at full speed.
I give everything 200%.
975
00:56:29,240 --> 00:56:34,680
I like to be told the truth,
and I didn't get that in this profession.
976
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:37,800
I preferred to stick with my own.
977
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:41,280
There aren't many of us,
but at least you know who's who.
978
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:48,800
This is my beach.
979
00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:50,840
My grandma lived 100 metres away.
980
00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:53,720
We used to come down here
to have fun, to dive...
981
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,240
We'd have a kickabout here.
982
00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:58,640
We were from Paris.
There's no beach there.
983
00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:02,200
It was always really special
to come back here,
984
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:07,760
to see all our cousins and family,
to have the ocean on our doorstep.
985
00:57:13,240 --> 00:57:14,840
It's unoccupied these days.
986
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:17,080
This was the kitchen.
987
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:18,600
The stove is still here.
988
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,280
She would prepare meals here.
989
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,560
This was my grandma's house.
990
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:35,160
Every time I came back to Martinique,
this is where I came.
991
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:48,320
We experienced extraordinary things.
And by "we", I mean my family.
992
00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:51,960
My brothers, my parents
and all the cousins who came here.
993
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:54,560
Things we won't forget or can't explain.
994
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:04,760
I felt good vibes with my kids,
so honestly, I was chuffed
995
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:10,000
because I figured they got an idea
of what I experienced 20 or 30 years ago.
996
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:15,040
I needed them to understand
and feel what I experienced.
997
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:18,760
And they're West Indian, too.
998
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:31,040
Called up once again
after three years of absence,
999
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:34,200
the Trappes player says he's honoured
to play for France again.
1000
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:40,320
It's a fabulous story: Raymond Domenech,
who'd been manager for a year,
1001
00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:44,480
called him up in November 2005
for a highly symbolic game in Martinique.
1002
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:46,480
Against Costa Rica.
1003
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:50,760
It was historic because France
had never played in the West Indies.
1004
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:56,000
Obviously, my parents were there,
so the pressure was on.
1005
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:59,840
The pressure was on because
West Indians can be harsh, critical.
1006
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:01,960
I had to do well.
1007
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:05,080
I wasn't expecting that at all.
1008
00:59:05,160 --> 00:59:07,360
-Not at all.
-Oh, yeah. It's true.
1009
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:11,160
We thought it was all over
because even I thought:
1010
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:15,560
"With all the problems and disappointments
he's had since the beginning...
1011
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,600
-And all his statements.
-...they'll never take him back."
1012
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:20,920
Vieira recovers the ball...
1013
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:24,440
Thierry Henry is onside,
passes to Anelka and goal!
1014
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:26,720
France equalise!
1015
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:30,640
Anelka scores a goal for his return
three and a half years later.
1016
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:33,480
It was great. I hadn't played
for France in a long time.
1017
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:38,360
To be back in the West Indies,
to score and to see all my family...
1018
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:39,480
it was special.
1019
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:45,120
People felt
that Nicolas Anelka had scored points,
1020
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:49,680
that he'd probably earned his spot
on the France team for the foreseeable,
1021
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:52,600
considering that the 2006 World Cup
was just around the corner.
1022
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:57,520
And yet, after 1998, after 2002,
1023
00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:01,880
it's a new failure for Nicolas Anelka,
who isn't called up by the manager.
1024
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:06,880
These are obstacles you have
to overcome, and I knew I would.
1025
01:00:08,520 --> 01:00:11,760
I tried to give it my all on the pitch,
and I wasn't too bad...
1026
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:15,560
despite having a knife to my throat
my whole career.
1027
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:30,240
You have to act from the heart.
1028
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:34,360
Whenever I do anything,
I try to be discreet. I do it sincerely.
1029
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:37,680
It's how I like to be.
It's how I like to act.
1030
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:42,600
I don't talk a lot about what I do
outside of football.
1031
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,440
I like to keep quiet.
1032
01:00:45,520 --> 01:00:48,560
I like to be... to go unnoticed.
1033
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:54,800
Even if it's difficult.
But there's a part of me that thinks...
1034
01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:58,440
God is on Earth and God sees what you do.
1035
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:04,160
You don't need to be judged,
even in a positive way.
1036
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:05,760
You don't need to be judged by people.
1037
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:10,160
God knows what you do,
and if you do good, you'll be rewarded.
1038
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:12,840
FROM 2004 TO 2008,
1039
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:18,600
NICOLAS ANELKA PLAYS
FOR FENERBAHÇE SK THEN BOLTON.
1040
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:21,560
Nicolas Anelka is becoming
a seasoned globetrotter.
1041
01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:25,480
Six clubs in eight years. Today,
he signed with Fenerbahçe in Turkey.
1042
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:27,680
Anelka! Anelka!
1043
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:31,400
This is a guy who went to Arsenal
when he was told he wouldn't play.
1044
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:33,960
Who joined Real Madrid
and was told the same.
1045
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:35,440
What's he gonna do in Turkey?
1046
01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:43,440
That obsessive devotion to the club
and the constant pressure
1047
01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:45,080
reminded me a lot of Real Madrid.
1048
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:48,200
Honestly, Anelka is a great footballer,
1049
01:01:48,280 --> 01:01:51,240
but for me, his mindset is greater
than his skills.
1050
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:54,800
He always had to prove something.
That he was tough.
1051
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:58,560
Anelka! What a goal!
1052
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:02,280
LONDON
ENGLAND
1053
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:05,840
Nicolas Anelka is back at a top club.
1054
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:09,960
The French international striker
leaves Bolton
1055
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:12,000
for Chelsea, another English club.
1056
01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:14,760
A transfer estimated at 21 million euros.
1057
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:18,360
Chelsea were already
two-time English champions.
1058
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:21,160
Chelsea were in the Champions League.
1059
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:25,160
So, when I got the call saying:
"Hey, Chelsea are interested in you",
1060
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:28,880
well, yeah, I wanted to join
the club I'd been looking for.
1061
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:32,760
It didn't have that family
and the warmth of Arsenal.
1062
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:34,920
It didn't have the history and tradition.
1063
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:38,320
It was a very lucrative place of work
for a lot of people.
1064
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:42,240
His slightly sort of cold character should
have actually suited Chelsea,
1065
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:44,080
and actually, it did.
1066
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:49,520
Anelka is filling in for Drogba
who's at the Africa Cup of Nations.
1067
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,600
I was at the CAN, so I was watching
every game to see how it was going.
1068
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:57,200
I was calling the other players to see
if they were helping him integrate.
1069
01:02:57,280 --> 01:03:00,240
The Blues desperately needed
a great striker, and with Anelka,
1070
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,880
Chelsea have found exactly
what they were hoping for.
1071
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:05,960
As for Anelka, he can now
express himself in the Premier League
1072
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:07,600
and in the Champions League.
1073
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:10,160
MOSCOW
RUSSIA
1074
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:13,080
A must-see match
for football fans around the world,
1075
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:15,480
the Champions League Final
is tonight in Moscow,
1076
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:18,640
between two English clubs:
Manchester United and Chelsea.
1077
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:22,120
I think we had one of the best teams
in the world at the time.
1078
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:24,280
Chelsea desperately wanted it.
1079
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:28,200
Manchester United fans, in their tens
of thousands, desperately wanted it.
1080
01:03:28,960 --> 01:03:31,640
One-one. It goes to penalties.
1081
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:34,320
It was an absolutely huge moment.
1082
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:37,400
You had some of the top players
in the world on the pitch.
1083
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:39,440
You had Rooney, Carrick, Ronaldo...
1084
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:41,000
The world is watching.
1085
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:46,440
Shimmy... and Čech has saved
from Ronaldo of all people!
1086
01:03:46,520 --> 01:03:47,720
I was there praying.
1087
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:58,320
I saw John miss his penalty
when it was crucial,
1088
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:00,520
and when that happened,
I thought: "This is bad."
1089
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:04,480
Sure, had John-John scored,
he could have ended the game.
1090
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:06,000
But it wasn't over yet.
1091
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:07,800
Our defeat came later.
1092
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:10,160
He didn't look happy coming forward.
1093
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,520
As he walked up,
I could tell he was bit tense.
1094
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:14,720
I could feel he was tense.
1095
01:04:26,680 --> 01:04:30,480
When I missed, the game was over.
I sealed the club's fate.
1096
01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:32,480
Plus, Russia is
the president's home country.
1097
01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:35,920
It hurt. It really hurt.
1098
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:43,600
Unfortunately, when you're a competitor,
1099
01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:47,120
you always remember the games you lose.
1100
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:50,800
The finals you lose.
It stays with you. It marks you for life.
1101
01:04:51,040 --> 01:04:54,560
Missing that penalty
made me feel like a traitor.
1102
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:57,640
I had no business being there.
1103
01:04:57,720 --> 01:05:02,760
I arrived mid-season,
and missing that penalty, it killed me.
1104
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:06,200
And it quite simply killed
my career at Chelsea.
1105
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:09,280
Even if after that,
I did some good things.
1106
01:05:09,840 --> 01:05:12,880
I just couldn't get over it.
Even today, I'm not over it.
1107
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:14,480
That's the real Nico, you know.
1108
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:18,640
That's the Nico you see
when you're with him on a daily basis.
1109
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:21,360
People just don't know what he's like.
1110
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:26,040
It hurts, and it always will.
1111
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:32,240
That defeat actually brought us together.
1112
01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:34,280
It united us.
1113
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:39,920
He came back a lot stronger.
1114
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:41,880
Anelka is on the end of it.
1115
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:52,360
He's done well here. Got away...
1116
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:54,760
-Oh, my word!
-What a goal that is!
1117
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:58,440
Nicolas Anelka has been waiting all game
1118
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:01,160
for a chance to take
the Premier League Golden Boot.
1119
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:03,200
He's one ahead of Ronaldo now.
1120
01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:05,560
But he was sort of maturing as a striker.
1121
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:08,600
Chelsea were slightly more set up
1122
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:12,440
to play for him with the quality
of passing they had in midfield.
1123
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:15,360
And he was unplayable
for large sections of that season.
1124
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:18,400
What a day for Chelsea FC!
1125
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:21,400
The Premier League trophy
is coming back to the Bridge!
1126
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:25,720
Chelsea were formidable that season
1127
01:06:25,800 --> 01:06:29,680
with the trophies that they won
and just the drive they had.
1128
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:33,400
You could feel the hurt from Moscow
just powering its way through them.
1129
01:06:33,640 --> 01:06:34,920
He turned 30.
1130
01:06:35,680 --> 01:06:38,240
That's normally the age of fulfilment.
1131
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:41,920
At least, when you're a footballer,
28 to 30 is when they say...
1132
01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:46,520
...you're at the top of your game.
1133
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:51,760
DUBLIN
IRELAND
1134
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:55,920
First, in sports news,
France's victory last night in Dublin.
1135
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:59,560
In their World Cup first-leg play-off,
France won 1-0
1136
01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:01,960
with a goal in the second half
by Nicolas Anelka.
1137
01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:04,440
France has a chance to qualify,
1138
01:07:04,520 --> 01:07:07,000
but it all depends
on Wednesday's second leg.
1139
01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:12,440
I was planning
on retiring after the World Cup.
1140
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,920
So, if we didn't qualify,
this would have been my last game.
1141
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:18,880
And Titi's last game, too.
1142
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:22,120
We were like:
"This might be our last game.
1143
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:26,680
It's crazy. We absolutely have to win
and qualify, otherwise it's over."
1144
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:30,480
And then there was
the famous incident where Titi...
1145
01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:33,160
in the scramble,
touched the ball with his hand...
1146
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:36,000
in the lead-up to William's goal.
1147
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:39,320
The day we qualified,
1148
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:41,560
we were together and we were happy,
1149
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:44,280
but the trouble started
the next day or the day after that.
1150
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:45,960
Henry's hand.
1151
01:07:46,040 --> 01:07:49,320
A handballer's move to shift the ball.
1152
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:50,600
Nothing to applaud.
1153
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:52,000
When France qualified,
1154
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,840
I saw how the media treated Thierry Henry.
1155
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:57,360
He qualified France and got butchered.
1156
01:07:57,440 --> 01:07:58,640
No one defended him.
1157
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:01,000
One-all for a chance
to get their hands on the World Cup.
1158
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:03,040
Les Bleus are headed to South Africa.
1159
01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:04,760
I'm not happy about it.
1160
01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:07,200
It makes me feel uneasy.
1161
01:08:07,280 --> 01:08:11,600
Maybe other countries were going
to give him a hard time in the press,
1162
01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:13,120
but France?
1163
01:08:13,200 --> 01:08:15,320
We were expecting some support.
1164
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:17,160
But it was the opposite.
1165
01:08:17,240 --> 01:08:20,720
It was an absolute massacre, by everybody.
1166
01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:23,560
He sacrificed himself
for his country, for his nation,
1167
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:27,760
to qualify his team for the World Cup,
and they spat in his face.
1168
01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:30,040
Not easy, honestly, on a personal level.
1169
01:08:30,120 --> 01:08:32,359
But hey, you've just got to deal with it.
1170
01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:34,399
When it's Vata, it's OK.
1171
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:36,279
18 APRIL 1990
BENFICA LISBON VS OLYMPIQUE DE MARSEILLE
1172
01:08:36,359 --> 01:08:38,720
When it's Maradona, it's the hand of God.
1173
01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:44,359
When it's Thierry Henry, it's...
it's the hand of hellfire.
1174
01:08:45,319 --> 01:08:47,439
France barely qualified.
1175
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:54,279
Their coach's legitimacy
would soon be called into question.
1176
01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:57,319
Some players were reaching
the end of their careers.
1177
01:08:57,399 --> 01:09:03,200
Everything was leading up to a crisis
that could blow up at the slightest hitch.
1178
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:07,840
LONDON
ENGLAND
1179
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:11,880
Two months before the World Cup,
the coach came to see Nico in London.
1180
01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:14,640
We even ate a cake.
I remember it like it was yesterday.
1181
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:17,760
We talked about my position on the pitch.
1182
01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:21,439
The way he spoke to Nico...
I thought: "Fuck, he really trusts him."
1183
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:29,680
The coach had asked him
to be his striker, and Nico replied:
1184
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:33,880
"OK, I'll be your striker,
but you know my playing style.
1185
01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:36,479
If you want a player who stays up front...
1186
01:09:37,080 --> 01:09:38,319
it can't be me."
1187
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:40,040
2 WEEKS BEFORE THE WORLD CUP
1188
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:44,399
The France football team has landed
on the African continent, in Tunisia,
1189
01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:47,680
for its second World Cup warm-up game.
1190
01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:52,600
There was a training camp in Tunisia
where families and friends could watch,
1191
01:09:52,680 --> 01:09:53,880
and Nico invited me.
1192
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:55,800
I don't know if he minds me saying,
1193
01:09:55,880 --> 01:09:58,840
but I'm going to say it
because people need to know.
1194
01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:02,560
He wanted to quit.
He wanted to leave the team.
1195
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:06,600
We played the friendlies,
I didn't touch the ball. Nothing. Zero.
1196
01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:09,480
There were no automatic reflexes
between us.
1197
01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:10,760
It was ugly.
1198
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,560
I knew that when we got
to the World Cup in Africa,
1199
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:19,000
having not built up any trust or scored
or done anything on the pitch...
1200
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:21,080
it didn't feel right.
1201
01:10:21,160 --> 01:10:25,520
There was Pat Évra and Titi Henry.
We were at the table.
1202
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:29,400
He told me he wanted to leave.
He felt something was going to go wrong.
1203
01:10:29,880 --> 01:10:33,240
So, I said to him: "Nico, don't be silly."
1204
01:10:33,320 --> 01:10:36,120
He said: "Pat, I swear,
something big is going to happen."
1205
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:40,560
In the end, I was persuaded to stay,
but yeah...
1206
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:44,560
France's last warm-up game has just ended.
1207
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:49,120
Their 1-0 defeat is a disappointment,
a concern even.
1208
01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:55,280
Now is not the time to shake things up
because we lost a friendly warm-up.
1209
01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:58,160
Like everyone, I'm disappointed,
but I'm thinking:
1210
01:10:58,240 --> 01:11:01,160
"The World Cup isn't today.
It starts on the 11th."
1211
01:11:01,240 --> 01:11:03,120
At that exact moment, he was right.
1212
01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:05,360
He's the coach. He's the one who decides.
1213
01:11:05,440 --> 01:11:07,600
He'll die defending his ideas. He's right.
1214
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:09,640
We tried opening up a dialogue with him.
1215
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:13,160
He chose to stick to his system.
And then what happened, happened.
1216
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:17,880
CAPE TOWN
SOUTH AFRICA
1217
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:21,680
It's 5:45 am, and here we are.
Les Bleus are in South Africa.
1218
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:25,640
I was happy to be there,
especially as it was in Africa.
1219
01:11:25,840 --> 01:11:27,480
Long live France!
1220
01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:29,720
It was historic.
1221
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:34,760
KNYSNA
FRANCE BASE CAMP
1222
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:41,080
We all got along. We wanted to get
together and do something great.
1223
01:11:41,160 --> 01:11:45,680
This is where the Indian Ocean
and the Atlantic Ocean meet.
1224
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:47,480
And it's the end of the world.
1225
01:11:47,560 --> 01:11:49,120
It was a healthy team.
1226
01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:50,800
Breakfast is at eight tomorrow!
1227
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:56,280
Cheers, William!
1228
01:11:56,720 --> 01:11:58,480
The atmosphere was great.
We had a lot of fun.
1229
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:08,520
Good evening, today's top story:
the start of the FIFA World Cup.
1230
01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:13,240
France's first game will be broadcast
straight after the news.
1231
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:18,600
We were confident in the knowledge
that we had extraordinary players,
1232
01:12:18,680 --> 01:12:20,480
exceptional in every way.
1233
01:12:20,560 --> 01:12:26,480
If we were able to work as a team,
we could achieve great things.
1234
01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:35,360
Uruguay and France drew 0-0.
1235
01:12:35,440 --> 01:12:38,000
Three shots on target,
many missed opportunities...
1236
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:41,080
On the whole, Gourcuff,
Govou and especially Anelka
1237
01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:44,560
seemed to underperform last night.
1238
01:12:44,760 --> 01:12:48,760
With Nicolas Anelka,
what bothers me the most is his attitude.
1239
01:12:48,840 --> 01:12:52,240
His position is supposed
to be centre-forward,
1240
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:55,440
but he's playing like a midfielder,
coming deep for the ball.
1241
01:12:55,520 --> 01:12:57,440
He's not following instructions.
1242
01:12:57,520 --> 01:13:00,160
The solution had to come from me,
not my teammates,
1243
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:03,640
which is why I tried to fall back
and bring something to the midfield,
1244
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:05,840
in order to find solutions.
1245
01:13:06,280 --> 01:13:09,080
For me, staying up front
wasn't the solution.
1246
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:12,200
That was just being the victim
of everything that was going on.
1247
01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:14,280
And I hate being the victim on the pitch.
1248
01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:20,760
I knew my performance wasn't great,
but I couldn't do anything.
1249
01:13:22,480 --> 01:13:25,440
France's opening game was against Uruguay,
1250
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:27,000
who ended up in fourth place.
1251
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:30,480
France didn't play a bad game.
With 0-0, they still had every chance.
1252
01:13:31,200 --> 01:13:34,560
Defeat is out of the question.
Victory is strongly recommended.
1253
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:37,600
France has to score, and if possible,
1254
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:40,160
win its second match tonight
against Mexico.
1255
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:52,720
I was frustrated going
into the locker room.
1256
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:54,440
I was thinking...
1257
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,800
"I'm not getting the ball,
I'm not finding a solution.
1258
01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:01,240
We're not playing well.
It's 0-0. We still haven't scored."
1259
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:04,560
All of a sudden, the coach came in
and called me out by name.
1260
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:08,000
When he called out my name...
1261
01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:11,560
with all that pent-up frustration...
1262
01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:13,960
it just came out because...
1263
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:16,840
because I didn't like it.
1264
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:20,600
I didn't like that he called me out
by name as if I were guilty.
1265
01:14:20,680 --> 01:14:23,880
As if I were public enemy number one.
1266
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:26,120
As if it were my fault.
1267
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:28,000
I took it as an attack.
1268
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:30,360
I've known Nico a while:
he can be sitting there
1269
01:14:30,440 --> 01:14:32,280
and you won't hear a peep from him.
1270
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:35,240
But yeah, like anybody,
if you rattle his cage...
1271
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:38,720
It was a big mistake.
He had to know I was frustrated.
1272
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:41,920
He had to know
that I was a volcano about to erupt.
1273
01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:51,080
As the players walked out,
my phone rang and it said "Nico".
1274
01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:52,600
I thought: "Why is he calling?"
1275
01:14:52,840 --> 01:14:55,880
He was like:
"Yeah, he took me out. Forget it."
1276
01:14:55,960 --> 01:14:58,360
Without him saying anything,
I knew something was up.
1277
01:14:58,720 --> 01:15:01,040
He didn't play the second half
against Mexico.
1278
01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:04,320
We weren't necessarily shocked
as his first half wasn't great.
1279
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:06,640
France lost 2-0 to Mexico.
1280
01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:10,880
It was a difficult position to be in,
but they just needed to beat South Africa
1281
01:15:10,960 --> 01:15:13,080
by two goals to stay in the competition.
1282
01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:18,680
Somehow, you could feel
that the ship was sailing into a storm,
1283
01:15:18,760 --> 01:15:22,120
and it did, but we thought
it would be just a sports fiasco.
1284
01:15:28,480 --> 01:15:31,240
When there's an incident,
there's a sanction.
1285
01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:33,440
And what's that? The pitch. You're off.
1286
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:36,480
You have the possibility,
if there's really a problem,
1287
01:15:36,560 --> 01:15:40,040
to take it up with the player,
to call him to your room,
1288
01:15:40,120 --> 01:15:43,520
straight away or the next day
or once you've had time to think about it.
1289
01:15:43,600 --> 01:15:44,720
Nothing happened.
1290
01:15:44,800 --> 01:15:49,280
I got a call from an executive at Canal+
who knew my history with Nicolas Anelka
1291
01:15:49,360 --> 01:15:52,920
and who asked me, as a rumour
was spreading among journalists,
1292
01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:56,200
if I was aware of a clash at half-time
during the Mexico game
1293
01:15:56,280 --> 01:15:58,160
between Nicolas Anelka
and Raymond Domenech.
1294
01:15:58,240 --> 01:15:59,960
I said I had no idea.
1295
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:02,480
I sent a jokey text to Nicolas Anelka,
1296
01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:05,800
asking him if he'd patched things up
with Raymond Domenech yet.
1297
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:08,360
And, to my great surprise,
he replied immediately:
1298
01:16:08,440 --> 01:16:10,400
"LOL. How did you know?"
1299
01:16:10,480 --> 01:16:11,920
So, I replied saying:
1300
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:15,960
"Look, this is L'Équipe's
front page tomorrow."
1301
01:16:16,040 --> 01:16:19,240
I looked at my phone and I was like...
1302
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:22,360
"Hang on, what?
1303
01:16:22,440 --> 01:16:26,280
It's going to say that?
Are you serious or are you joking?
1304
01:16:26,360 --> 01:16:31,040
He said: "No, no.
That's L'Équipe's headline tomorrow."
1305
01:16:32,680 --> 01:16:35,280
Good afternoon,
our top story this lunchtime:
1306
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:39,160
the France football team
once again mired in scandal.
1307
01:16:39,240 --> 01:16:45,440
L'Équipe's headline today is the phrase
Anelka allegedly said to Domenech.
1308
01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:49,880
Everyone here in South Africa
is talking about the Anelka affair.
1309
01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:52,000
He insulted Domenech.
1310
01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:55,520
What happened that night
and in the hours that followed?
1311
01:16:55,720 --> 01:16:59,880
Domenech allegedly told Anelka
to change position on the pitch
1312
01:16:59,960 --> 01:17:00,880
and defend less.
1313
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:04,920
Anelka sent him packing
with his obscenities.
1314
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:08,760
The row has reached the ears
of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
1315
01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:14,080
If the events reported this morning
by the press are true...
1316
01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:17,000
they are unacceptable.
1317
01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:20,520
DESPITE OUR NUMEROUS REQUESTS,
THE DAILY SPORTS NEWSPAPER L'ÉQUIPE
1318
01:17:20,600 --> 01:17:23,240
AND ITS EDITORIAL TEAM DECLINED
TO GIVE US AN INTERVIEW.
1319
01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:25,960
THEY ALSO FORBADE US
FROM USING ANY REPRODUCTION
1320
01:17:26,040 --> 01:17:29,000
OF THE PAPER'S FRONT PAGES
FEATURING NICOLAS ANELKA.
1321
01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:31,920
If you insult the coach's mother...
1322
01:17:32,320 --> 01:17:34,880
It's not every day
you can put that on the front page.
1323
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:36,800
So, they took it to the next level.
1324
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:41,880
Compared to the Champions League,
this is the Interplanetary League!
1325
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:44,720
You know, there's no turning back.
It was madness.
1326
01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:47,360
And, well, we were the victims.
1327
01:17:47,440 --> 01:17:51,400
I was the first victim,
but the other players were taken hostage.
1328
01:17:51,480 --> 01:17:55,200
They were like: "What's going on?"
Everyone was calling them.
1329
01:17:55,280 --> 01:17:59,200
People wanted to know if it was true,
what was going on, etc.
1330
01:17:59,280 --> 01:18:01,000
It was just insane.
1331
01:18:03,480 --> 01:18:08,200
When L'Équipe published that headline,
we had to go and see Nicolas to find out
1332
01:18:08,280 --> 01:18:13,600
whether he would be prepared to apologise
to the manager and his teammates.
1333
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:15,960
And in amongst this...
1334
01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:21,160
chaotic and nauseating
environment of ours...
1335
01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:26,000
this complete shambles,
to say the least...
1336
01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:32,840
I found a man who was
completely disillusioned and...
1337
01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:36,080
with this cold anger
and a sort of resentment
1338
01:18:36,160 --> 01:18:39,120
with regards
to how we'd got to this point.
1339
01:18:39,640 --> 01:18:42,960
He explained his side of the story,
the ins and outs of it all,
1340
01:18:43,040 --> 01:18:44,760
how he ended up...
1341
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:49,960
turning against Raymond
in the locker room.
1342
01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:52,160
That it wasn't a fit of rage.
1343
01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:55,840
That something...
And when you know Nicolas Anelka,
1344
01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:59,200
he's not the type of guy
to blow up over nothing.
1345
01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:00,520
It's got to build up.
1346
01:19:00,880 --> 01:19:03,960
The most important thing for me
was the team and patching things up
1347
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:07,520
so that the guys could focus
on the World Cup,
1348
01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:09,520
not on what had happened
in the locker room.
1349
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:15,320
Pat Évra and Éric Abidal called
the coach who said he'd come down.
1350
01:19:15,400 --> 01:19:16,600
We waited for him.
1351
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:19,800
But, in the end, the coach never came.
1352
01:19:20,200 --> 01:19:23,680
The coach fled. Unfortunately.
You've got to tell it like it is.
1353
01:19:23,760 --> 01:19:27,040
Everyone was looking for him
in the hotel for a meeting
1354
01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:29,440
between him and Nicolas.
1355
01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:33,720
On the pitch in Knysna,
the France team is back in training.
1356
01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:38,160
We're looking for Nicolas Anelka,
but the France striker has disappeared.
1357
01:19:38,520 --> 01:19:42,280
The player sent home from the World Cup
by the French Federation
1358
01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:45,840
for seriously insulting the coach
and not apologising.
1359
01:19:45,920 --> 01:19:49,640
The president has decided
to expel Nicolas Anelka from the team.
1360
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:53,520
His remarks were unacceptable
and confirmed by the coach himself.
1361
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:57,320
People who know me
know very well that if I'd said
1362
01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:00,480
what came out in the press,
I'd have owned up to it.
1363
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:03,920
I've always owned up
to everything I've said and done.
1364
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:06,040
"GO FUCK YOURSELF,
YOU DIRTY SON OF A BITCH!"
1365
01:20:06,120 --> 01:20:07,280
L'ÉQUIPE - 19TH JUNE 2010
1366
01:20:07,360 --> 01:20:10,640
I was next to him in the locker room,
and at no point...
1367
01:20:11,360 --> 01:20:14,640
did he say what was written
in that newspaper.
1368
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:19,480
The person in question
never denied the allegations.
1369
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:23,520
For the press to say we're rubbish
or whatever, fine by me. No problem.
1370
01:20:23,600 --> 01:20:27,000
They said we were catastrophic,
a bunch of impostors, whatever.
1371
01:20:27,080 --> 01:20:29,720
But to write words like that,
that's going too far!
1372
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:32,680
In the morning, I went to buy the paper.
Sold out everywhere.
1373
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:34,120
It created a huge buzz.
1374
01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:37,320
When you look at the photos,
it's like we're about to fight.
1375
01:20:37,400 --> 01:20:39,560
But he was far away
and I was sitting down.
1376
01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:41,400
We were talking.
1377
01:20:41,480 --> 01:20:43,760
It lasted... ten seconds.
1378
01:20:43,840 --> 01:20:46,840
Knysna is the biggest media fiasco ever.
1379
01:20:47,160 --> 01:20:50,360
All the journalists spent
their evenings in the same bar.
1380
01:20:50,440 --> 01:20:54,320
There was this determination
to publish something at all costs.
1381
01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:56,400
They took a lot of liberties with me.
1382
01:20:56,480 --> 01:20:58,320
A front page with an insult like that?
1383
01:20:58,400 --> 01:21:00,000
I find it extraordinary.
1384
01:21:00,080 --> 01:21:01,280
It won't happen again.
1385
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:06,400
THAT NIGHT, THE PLAYERS
GET TOGETHER IN THEIR HOTEL.
1386
01:21:06,680 --> 01:21:08,200
We all met in the hotel.
1387
01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:12,440
We chatted and I told the players
how sad the whole situation was.
1388
01:21:12,520 --> 01:21:17,880
"All you have to do is be focused
on the pitch. There's one game left."
1389
01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:20,320
"If we win..."
That's how I spoke at the time.
1390
01:21:20,400 --> 01:21:22,520
"If we win the game, we qualify."
1391
01:21:23,120 --> 01:21:26,360
And they were like: "Yeah,
but it's not right. We don't agree.
1392
01:21:26,440 --> 01:21:29,160
We want to do something for you,
to take a stand."
1393
01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:30,520
I said: "Do what you want...
1394
01:21:31,240 --> 01:21:34,840
but I'm leaving tonight."
1395
01:21:35,440 --> 01:21:37,960
And, together, they decided,
while I was there:
1396
01:21:38,480 --> 01:21:41,200
"Tomorrow,
we'll stop talking to the press.
1397
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:45,720
And as a sign of protest,
we won't go to training."
1398
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:49,520
A film needs a beginning,
a middle part and an ending.
1399
01:21:49,600 --> 01:21:52,360
And it's never a happy ending.
Except in Hollywood.
1400
01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:54,560
I remember the two of them.
1401
01:21:54,640 --> 01:21:59,320
Thierry Henry carrying Nico's bag,
and Nico vanishing into the night.
1402
01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:02,360
I just thought: "What a waste."
1403
01:22:02,440 --> 01:22:05,760
When he left,
I walked him out to the parking lot.
1404
01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:10,480
It wasn't easy.
It was a tough moment, for sure.
1405
01:22:11,040 --> 01:22:13,160
I thought back to Clairefontaine.
1406
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:17,960
I thought back
to that youngster showing up and...
1407
01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:22,560
I won't go into details
because some things should stay
1408
01:22:22,640 --> 01:22:24,800
between the two of us, but...
1409
01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:26,600
it was tough.
1410
01:22:27,720 --> 01:22:28,600
Really tough.
1411
01:22:29,120 --> 01:22:33,640
It was the end. After that,
I couldn't return to the France team.
1412
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:35,840
It leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
1413
01:22:35,920 --> 01:22:38,640
It was a really emotional moment.
1414
01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:42,480
Sometimes, there are moments like that...
1415
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:45,840
They're sad, but you've got
to experience them, and honestly...
1416
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:50,120
it's a moment I'll never forget.
1417
01:22:53,920 --> 01:22:56,600
So, with that, I left.
1418
01:22:57,440 --> 01:23:02,200
I knew that their plan was
to take the bus and not get out.
1419
01:23:03,480 --> 01:23:08,360
I got a call from Pat Évra,
1420
01:23:08,440 --> 01:23:12,040
who said: "Nico, we're not going
to be able to do what we said...
1421
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:15,000
because there are children coming.
1422
01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:17,520
France fans.
1423
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:21,280
So, we're going to sign autographs
for all the fans...
1424
01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:24,560
and when we're done,
we'll get back on the bus."
1425
01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:28,400
And what happened, happened.
1426
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:35,120
"In this statement,
all the France players without exception
1427
01:23:35,200 --> 01:23:39,000
would like to express their opposition
to the French Federation's decision
1428
01:23:39,080 --> 01:23:40,920
to expel Nicolas Anelka.
1429
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:44,640
At the request of the team, the player
attempted to open up a dialogue,
1430
01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:48,320
but we regret that his actions
were voluntarily ignored.
1431
01:23:48,400 --> 01:23:51,480
Consequently, and to mark
their opposition to the attitude
1432
01:23:51,560 --> 01:23:53,600
of the highest authorities
in French football,
1433
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:57,560
the players have decided
not to take part in today's training.
1434
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:01,400
Signed the France players."
Thank you, gentlemen. Goodbye.
1435
01:24:01,480 --> 01:24:04,160
I was watching him on TV
and people were calling me.
1436
01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:06,480
It was extraordinary. It was like a movie.
1437
01:24:06,920 --> 01:24:11,080
For this open training session,
they just came to greet the fans,
1438
01:24:11,160 --> 01:24:12,560
before walking away.
1439
01:24:12,640 --> 01:24:13,600
What happened?
1440
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:15,360
They'll tell you themselves.
1441
01:24:15,920 --> 01:24:18,040
They're the players. They'll tell you.
1442
01:24:18,120 --> 01:24:20,800
Jean-Louis Valentin, Deputy
General Manager of the Federation,
1443
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:22,280
hastily leaves the pitch.
1444
01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:23,360
He's exasperated.
1445
01:24:23,440 --> 01:24:25,240
This is an absolute scandal.
1446
01:24:25,320 --> 01:24:27,240
I am handing in my resignation.
1447
01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:31,080
A few yards away, physical trainer
Robert Duverne has just heard the news.
1448
01:24:31,160 --> 01:24:32,680
The players are refusing to train.
1449
01:24:33,080 --> 01:24:35,800
He almost comes to blows
with Patrice Évra,
1450
01:24:35,880 --> 01:24:38,200
and in frustration,
violently throws his whistle.
1451
01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:40,200
The coach was reading his letter.
1452
01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:42,280
The other guy quit.
1453
01:24:42,360 --> 01:24:44,680
The trainer threw his whistle
and almost got into a fight.
1454
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:47,280
All in front of the cameras.
It was madness!
1455
01:24:47,600 --> 01:24:51,080
When I saw those images of the bus
with the curtains drawn,
1456
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:53,040
I thought it was a hostage situation.
1457
01:24:53,440 --> 01:24:56,280
Honestly, at first, I thought
it was a terrorist attack.
1458
01:24:56,800 --> 01:25:00,240
I knew it was going to be a mess
because I knew the man.
1459
01:25:00,320 --> 01:25:03,280
Yeah, that's why I wanted to tell guys:
1460
01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:07,320
"Careful what you do and how far
you go with him. Especially with him."
1461
01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:10,880
Because all the power was
in one person's hands.
1462
01:25:15,200 --> 01:25:17,160
I feel ashamed about Knysna.
1463
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:20,320
But then you think: "It's a team sport.
1464
01:25:20,960 --> 01:25:24,400
If all your players get together
and do something like that,
1465
01:25:24,480 --> 01:25:25,880
there must be a reason."
1466
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:28,520
Football is the most individual
team sport.
1467
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:31,240
It's every man for himself.
1468
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:34,240
THE MUTINY
1469
01:25:39,120 --> 01:25:42,160
It feels like the team is in ruins,
with no values.
1470
01:25:42,240 --> 01:25:45,920
It's all the excesses of our society:
money, individualism...
1471
01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:50,000
After all, what's the France team
if not a team of traders?
1472
01:25:50,800 --> 01:25:52,360
Since his debut at PSG,
1473
01:25:52,440 --> 01:25:55,600
Nicolas Anelka has rarely tolerated
anyone standing up to him.
1474
01:25:55,680 --> 01:25:58,040
It's an insult to his mates,
to the France fans,
1475
01:25:58,120 --> 01:26:00,320
and it's not the first time
he's done this.
1476
01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:02,880
All his statements
about his love for Les Bleus,
1477
01:26:02,960 --> 01:26:04,320
we just let it slide.
1478
01:26:04,400 --> 01:26:06,560
In France, we've let it all slide!
1479
01:26:06,640 --> 01:26:09,480
People have written
and said a lot about Nicolas Anelka,
1480
01:26:09,560 --> 01:26:12,280
his couldn't-give-a-damn approach,
his disdain,
1481
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:15,960
his indifference towards Les Bleus,
when it's anything but that.
1482
01:26:16,040 --> 01:26:19,480
Nico was one of the few people,
in that whole ordeal,
1483
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:21,680
to show any empathy.
1484
01:26:22,480 --> 01:26:27,040
A few weeks later,
we were chatting by text or something.
1485
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:30,240
I brought up South Africa
and he replied...
1486
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:33,400
"Sorry for everything that happened."
1487
01:26:34,040 --> 01:26:40,080
As if he were the responsible party,
or the culprit even,
1488
01:26:40,160 --> 01:26:42,080
when that wasn't the case at all.
1489
01:26:42,160 --> 01:26:43,680
Far from it.
1490
01:26:43,760 --> 01:26:47,040
Seeing as Nico doesn't
open up to everybody
1491
01:26:47,480 --> 01:26:52,080
and tends to keep things inside
and deal with them alone,
1492
01:26:52,160 --> 01:26:56,040
it makes you wonder how much he suffers,
and how you can help him.
1493
01:26:56,120 --> 01:26:57,600
And that's what's important.
1494
01:26:57,680 --> 01:27:01,800
As for what other people might say,
we already know.
1495
01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:03,360
PARIS
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
1496
01:27:03,440 --> 01:27:06,040
The Minister for Health and Sport.
1497
01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:09,760
Like you, I can only take note
of the disaster.
1498
01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:15,320
A France team in which immature gangsters
intimidate frightened young children.
1499
01:27:15,400 --> 01:27:19,200
It was just taken as read.
He'd said this, done that.
1500
01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:21,080
He was responsible for everything.
1501
01:27:21,160 --> 01:27:22,760
It was pretty brutal.
1502
01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:26,240
So, I was glad
that my children were too young
1503
01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:28,680
to understand
what was going on at the time.
1504
01:27:29,120 --> 01:27:32,920
It was hard for his parents, too,
because me, well...
1505
01:27:34,240 --> 01:27:36,720
I know him.
1506
01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:39,440
But it wasn't easy for his parents.
1507
01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:44,720
There's a world of difference between
what people think of Nico and Nico.
1508
01:27:45,760 --> 01:27:47,720
HIGH COURT OF PARIS
1509
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:51,480
ON 19TH JULY 2010,
NICOLAS ANELKA SUES L'ÉQUIPE FOR:
1510
01:27:51,560 --> 01:27:55,200
"DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER
BY SPOKEN OR WRITTEN WORD,
1511
01:27:55,280 --> 01:27:58,760
IMAGE OR OTHER COMMUNICATION
TO THE PUBLIC"
1512
01:27:58,840 --> 01:28:00,160
It was a shocking front page.
1513
01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:02,280
I wanted to be judged on that.
1514
01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:04,040
I was asked if it's what I'd said.
1515
01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:07,960
I replied: "No. Those aren't my words.
1516
01:28:08,040 --> 01:28:12,920
So, judge me on that headline
and on those words."
1517
01:28:13,280 --> 01:28:15,160
EXTRACT OF THE 1ST JULY 2011 VERDICT:
1518
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:17,320
"THE EDITORIAL CHOICE OF ITS FRONT-PAGE,
1519
01:28:17,400 --> 01:28:20,080
UNQUESTIONABLY SPECTACULAR
IF NOT SENSATIONALIST,
1520
01:28:20,160 --> 01:28:23,320
FALLS WITHIN THE SCOPE
OF JOURNALISTIC FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION."
1521
01:28:23,400 --> 01:28:25,840
"IT IS ADMITTED
THAT THIS CAN BE ACCOMPANIED
1522
01:28:25,920 --> 01:28:28,440
BY A DEGREE OF EXAGGERATION,
OR EVEN PROVOCATION."
1523
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:31,680
Today, with this legal precedent,
1524
01:28:31,760 --> 01:28:35,280
you can put words into anyone's mouth
and add in an insult,
1525
01:28:35,360 --> 01:28:38,480
without fear of being convicted,
1526
01:28:38,560 --> 01:28:41,960
as long as you know an insult
was exchanged between two people.
1527
01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:46,440
Which means that, today,
journalists are free
1528
01:28:46,600 --> 01:28:51,640
to assign statements,
in quotes, to any person,
1529
01:28:51,720 --> 01:28:56,160
and attribute insults to them,
however serious they may be.
1530
01:28:56,240 --> 01:29:00,440
That exaggeration has been legitimised
by this legal precedent.
1531
01:29:01,080 --> 01:29:03,640
8 YEARS LATER,
RAYMOND DOMENECH REVISITS
1532
01:29:03,720 --> 01:29:08,600
THE INCIDENT WITH NICOLAS ANELKA
IN THE DOCUMENTARY SÉLECTIONNEURS.
1533
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:15,480
There are moments
with players in the locker room
1534
01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:17,400
where you have it out, that's all.
1535
01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:20,560
But he certainly didn't say
what was written in the newspapers.
1536
01:29:21,320 --> 01:29:26,960
At half-time, I told him, "Nico,
what I want is for you to go in deep."
1537
01:29:27,040 --> 01:29:29,920
He had his boots in his hand
and turned around.
1538
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:33,200
He threw them down and said:
"Look after your shit team alone!"
1539
01:29:35,840 --> 01:29:39,440
Supposedly it was him,
and then it turns out it wasn't.
1540
01:29:39,640 --> 01:29:41,440
He was the perfect target.
1541
01:29:41,520 --> 01:29:43,440
That way, the manager...
1542
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:47,920
No one was talking about results
or what was happening on the pitch.
1543
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:50,160
There was only one affair.
The Anelka affair.
1544
01:29:50,240 --> 01:29:55,080
People were a little shocked
by what he said in that documentary.
1545
01:29:55,160 --> 01:29:58,640
Nearly eight years later,
he said those weren't my words.
1546
01:29:59,160 --> 01:30:01,880
But he'd said that
in his report to the federation.
1547
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:06,040
I think the press knew,
but nobody said anything.
1548
01:30:06,240 --> 01:30:08,080
When the judgement was passed,
1549
01:30:08,160 --> 01:30:11,120
when the headline was declared
and judged to be defamatory,
1550
01:30:11,200 --> 01:30:13,480
nobody took any notice.
1551
01:30:13,560 --> 01:30:15,360
I don't have a single article about it.
1552
01:30:15,440 --> 01:30:16,880
I have: "L'Équipe acquitted."
1553
01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:19,280
Yes, that's an important point,
1554
01:30:19,360 --> 01:30:24,680
but no more important than the fact
that the headline was defamatory.
1555
01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:27,600
If such remarks had been attributed...
1556
01:30:28,760 --> 01:30:32,040
to anyone other than Nicolas Anelka...
1557
01:30:32,760 --> 01:30:34,360
L'Équipe would have been convicted.
1558
01:30:36,320 --> 01:30:39,240
NICOLAS ANELKA WILL NEVER PLAY
FOR FRANCE AGAIN
1559
01:30:39,320 --> 01:30:41,800
AFTER 69 CAPS AND 14 GOALS.
1560
01:30:44,520 --> 01:30:47,920
LONDON
ENGLAND
1561
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:49,520
I thank God every day
1562
01:30:49,600 --> 01:30:52,960
because I was lucky
that my children were too young
1563
01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:55,360
to understand what happened
in South Africa...
1564
01:30:55,440 --> 01:30:56,240
Hello!
1565
01:30:56,320 --> 01:30:59,400
...and what happened throughout my career.
1566
01:31:00,280 --> 01:31:02,400
Things were said
that had nothing to do with me.
1567
01:31:02,480 --> 01:31:07,560
Made-up things.
Negative things about me and my life.
1568
01:31:07,640 --> 01:31:10,000
About my brothers and their ambition.
1569
01:31:11,840 --> 01:31:17,480
Happy birthday, Daddy!
1570
01:31:18,120 --> 01:31:23,120
Happy birthday to you!
1571
01:31:23,200 --> 01:31:26,440
One, two, three!
1572
01:31:28,400 --> 01:31:30,560
He's sensitive, but he doesn't show it.
1573
01:31:31,440 --> 01:31:35,200
And I feel like, in football,
you've got to show your feelings.
1574
01:31:35,280 --> 01:31:40,160
If you don't, people say
that you're cold and unfriendly.
1575
01:31:40,240 --> 01:31:42,520
I think he protected himself from...
1576
01:31:43,080 --> 01:31:45,720
all that notoriety surrounding football
1577
01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:49,520
because he felt like it wasn't his world,
like he wasn't in his element.
1578
01:31:49,600 --> 01:31:53,080
And I think by doing so,
he maybe created a disconnect
1579
01:31:53,160 --> 01:31:54,520
between himself...
1580
01:31:55,520 --> 01:31:56,600
and the public.
1581
01:31:58,400 --> 01:31:59,760
OVER THE COURSE OF HIS CAREER,
1582
01:31:59,840 --> 01:32:02,920
NICOLAS ANELKA HAS PLAYED IN 7 COUNTRIES
INCLUDING CHINA AND INDIA.
1583
01:32:03,280 --> 01:32:04,600
I'm lucky.
1584
01:32:04,760 --> 01:32:06,280
I've travelled.
1585
01:32:06,360 --> 01:32:10,560
I was able to make a lot of money
and do what I wanted in life.
1586
01:32:12,240 --> 01:32:18,960
Aged 31, nearly 32,
I felt it was time to relax a bit.
1587
01:32:19,440 --> 01:32:22,280
TODAY, HE WORKS AS A COACH.
1588
01:32:22,360 --> 01:32:25,720
People often think that football is easy.
1589
01:32:26,840 --> 01:32:28,240
There you go, that's it!
1590
01:32:28,320 --> 01:32:29,960
It's not. It's really complicated.
1591
01:32:30,520 --> 01:32:32,760
It's complicated to deal
with the pressure,
1592
01:32:32,840 --> 01:32:35,000
to perform all the time,
your whole career.
1593
01:32:35,080 --> 01:32:38,920
A career isn't just a year or two.
It spans 15-20 years.
1594
01:32:41,480 --> 01:32:43,280
Like I said, it wasn't the best path.
1595
01:32:45,240 --> 01:32:46,640
And I don't recommend it to anyone.
1596
01:32:48,440 --> 01:32:49,560
But it's my path.
1597
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:02,800
IN MEMORY OF JEAN-PHILIPPE ANELKA
1598
01:33:11,480 --> 01:33:14,480
Subtitle translation by Julia Knapp