What Is the most famous sport in
France?
Billy J Vasquez
Period 1
Sports played in France:
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Football (soccer)
Tennis
Basketball
Handball
Cycling
Rugby
Boules (Pétanque)
The Most Played Sport:
• SOCCER- Is the most popular sport in France
with 2,320,625 registered players last
year(2008).
• TENNIS- Is number 2 sport with 1,094,593
registered players.
Soccer Player
• THIERRY HENRY- is an excited player who
helped his national team France in the 1998
World Cup and European Championship in
2000. Now playing in Spain, Barcelona with
Football Club Barcelona. He was bought by
Barcelona in the beginning of the 2007-2008
season.
Cont……
• ZIDANE-also helped his French national team
win the 1998 World Cup and European
Championship in 2000. He is now retired,
surely everyone that watched the last World
Cup in Germany, when he head butted an
Italian player was the last time he was seen
pitch (Soccer Field). Now he is most likely in
France remembering all the good times in the
Soccer Federation. Specially the way he will be
remembered “The Head Butter.”
Comparing U.S and European Soccer