Le Scandal de Football

During the 1990s, it was only the French extreme right that ridiculed the idea that multiracial sport could facilitate racial integration in France. Now the derision directed against the indiscipline of a “black” team and the implicit failure of sport’s integrative role in French society rains down from across the political spectrum.

From Le Scandal by Foreign Policy, about the ways in which France’s soccer team flame-out has revealed racial animosity in the country.

(Uh, Francophones, should that be de or du? My french study ended in 10th grade, and I haven’t used it much since.)