New Delhi: After the embarrassing exit from the world cup, the French team has to answer to no less than the President himself.
The postmortem into France's farcical implosion at the World Cup reached the halls of the Elysée Palace as President Nicolas Sarkozy is due to meet Thierry Henry later on Thursday, after he also summoned several cabinet members to discuss the World Cup debacle.
An official statement from the presidential palace confirmed that Henry had called Sarkozy from South Africa requesting for his audience. A government spokesman reflecting Sarkozy's thoughts said that the squad lacked respect, team spirit, pride and enough dignity to wear the shirt of any club, from the smallest local side to that of the French national team.
Sarkozy is reportedly furious and was quoted by a government official: "It is a political problem. When the whole world is laughing at us, it goes beyond sport."
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