Carl Anka
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1,124 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 14 Aug
Carl Anka’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so I suppose the fun thing is this is an amazing France team that looks entirely all-conquering, but they can't quite figure out Euros.
So that's fun.
It's really fun that Kylian Mbappe is very clearly one of the best football players in the world, but he's still not won a Champions League and he's not really done anything out of Euros either.
He's got the Thomas Müller gene where he's amazing at World Cups and not good at Euros.
Matt Slater wrote this great piece after Germany's elimination to Paraguay where he said, if you're under the age of 25, you're like, well, it's Germany.
What's the big deal?
If you are under the age of 25, you've probably only ever known good, reliable, juggernaut France instead of the highly erratic, prone to inconsistency and implosions version of France.
And I think that speaks to D.A.
Deschamps' credit.
He has...
been underwritten by some people for a while and there's been this long conversation from at least 2020 which is like when is Deschamps going to step down and Zidane is going to take over so this is his last tournament the expectation is Zidane will take over afterwards but now you've got almost this not even almost this is the culmination of all of Deschamps' work in charge of France
And then they brought on Ryan Cherky.
Yeah.
Imagine being a Swedish player just being stood there and you turn around and it's like, oh, they're bringing on Cherky.
Oh, for the love of... Oh, and it's Dewey next.
Yeah.
it's really, really well balanced now.
And I think that first half against Senegal, I'm going to get behind me, Critch.
I can understand why you watch that first half against Senegal and go, this is a bit weird because particularly in that game, in the opening 45 minutes, all the players want to come short to get the ball.
And then that's when one of Deschamps' more overlooked traits come to the fore in that he makes tweaks.
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