Philippe Auclair
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2,083 appearances
17 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Philippe Auclair’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But Kilian, when he was...
four or five years old, was already, when the French team was playing on television, he was already standing to attention and singing La Marseillaise.
So there you go.
Others do not quite perhaps have the same
attachment to the country in which they were born.
But I would say it varies an awful lot from player to player.
And it's something that's really struck me when even with older generations, the 1998 generation, because I knew quite a few of the players there.
And to see how, for example, for somebody like Patrick Vieira, who was born in Senegal and lived in Senegal until he was six years old,
according to official records Patrick was passionately French but he was also passionately Senegalese and there is no for me there is absolutely no contradiction and I think the problem is more that our own perception we are a little bit behind the reality of the countries we live in and we have a very narrow some of us have a narrow minded view of
of patriotism and national belonging, you can feel very patriotic.
Again, if you're patriotic, you can feel incredibly patriotic towards France, but also feel incredibly patriotic towards Senegal.
And then when they play against each other, you find out.
The perception varies an awful lot.
I think people will only realize later on that we're talking about a huge figure in French football history.
On the other hand, there's always, it's a question of style.
It's a question of style and the fact that Deschamps put in a kind of
playing style, which is not in accordance to what we would think of as French football, which I think for, and which had been for, I mean, almost forever.
You think about the 1958 team, which was, you know, finished third in the World Cup, which was pure poetry in motion at times.
Then you go to the great club sites of the 70s.
Then you go to that amazing generation starting from 1976 and going all the way to 1986.
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