It seems that the multi-ethnic makeup of the French national side when they won in 98 and 2000 was seen as a culturally binding agent but now the team is losing politicians and commentators seem to be alluding to the fact there are Black people and Arabs in the team as a causal factor for these failings. Read about it here. Do listen the short audio clip near the bottom of the article, it makes things a lot clearer than the article does.
Please note a reference is made to some players being from the suburbs, in nearly all the western world outside of Britain and the US affluent urban dwellers live in the urban core and the counter urbs with the poor relegated to living on the outskirts of the city, often in large, easily bypassed housing projects. So essentially in France to be from the suburbs is to be from the ghetto.
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