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France

Team Name	France
Stadium	Stade de France
Manager	Raymond Domenech
Captain	Thierry Henry
Confederation	UEFA
Five Star Ranking

The French are classed as being one one of the best national teams in the game due to their strength in depth and world class players in a variety of positions. They however lack a midfield playmaker due to the retirement of Zinedine Zidane and therefore are more reliant on wing play than playing through the middle. They have been licensed since PES6 with a home kit of blue shirts, white shorts and red socks and an away strip of all white with red and blue trim. There unlicensed kit in the earlier games had them playing in white socks for their home strip.

France squad in PES 2010.

Tactics & Players

The most effective formation for France is usually 4-4-2 with Jeremy Toulalan and Lassana Diarra as holding midfielders and having fast skillful players on the flanks such as Franck Ribery and Samir Nasri to supply Thierry Henry and Karim Benzema. 4-3-3 is also effective by sacrificing either Vieira or Makelele for a further attacking option. It does however leave the team suspect to counter attacks, however they are equipped well at the back to deal with any sort of attacks, having players like William Gallas , Patrice Evra and Eric Abidal.

Controversy

Many criticised Konami after they included Lilian Thuram in PES 2009 even though he had already retired and failed to correct this in the November update. France also had their old kits in the original version but this was fixed during the update. It is worth noting that Willy Sagnol has also retired. Claude Makelele has retired from International football and Gregory Coupet has not been selected since the European Championships 2008.

Team Squad in PES 2010

Pos.	Name	Club
	Steve Mandanda	Olympique de Marseille
	Philippe Mexes	AS Roma
	William Gallas	Arsenal FC
	Bacary Sagna	Arsenal FC
	Eric Abidal	FC Barcelona
	Jeremy Toulalan	Olympique Lyonnais
	Lassana Diarra	Real Madrid
	Franck Ribery	Bayern Munich
	Florent Malouda	Chelsea FC
	Yoann Gourcuff	Girondins de Bordeaux
	Karim Benzema	Real Madrid
	Hugo Lloris	Olympique Lyonnais
	Jean-Alain Boumsong	Olympique Lyonnais
	Sebastien Squillaci	Sevilla FC
	Patrice Evra	Manchester United
	Gael Clichy	Arsenal FC
	Rod Fanni	Stade Rennais
	Alou Diarra	Girondins de Bordeaux
	Samir Nasri	Arsenal FC
	Jimmy Briand	Stade Rennais
	Andre-Pierre Gignac	Toulouse FC
	Thierry Henry(c)	FC Barcelona
	Nicolas Anelka	Chelsea FC