Articles tagged with "olympique-lyonnais"
Karim Benzema Keeps Lyon's Double Hopes Alive, and more CdF News
By Laurie | March 19th, 2008Lyon's Champions League dreams may be history, but Karim Benzema managed to keep their hopes of a double alive. Lyon won their Coupe de ...
Happy 20th Birthday, Karim Benzema
By Laurie | December 19th, 2007Every once in awhile, when the camera angle is just right, I look at Karim Benzema and think, Zidane. It's not surprising. Both were born ...
Come on Rangers, You're Better than This!
By Laurie | December 4th, 2007Ever play Candyland with a three-year-old? Ever stack the cards when she's not looking so she can win, just because it's tough being little? ...
Lyon 2 - 2 Barcelona: Review and Highlights (Group Winners, biotches! edition)
By Isaiah | November 29th, 2007Before we truly get going, I think it's only fair that I admit that I did not get to see this game. Obviously this detracts ...
Lyon - Barcelona: Champions League (Tuesday, 2:30pm EST)
By Isaiah | November 26th, 2007I don't have much time to write up this post, so I'm just going to link to Inara's post about the game and copy my ...
Huh? Lille Ties Lyon At Stade de Gerland.
By Julien | September 24th, 2007Surprisingly, LOSC was able to receive a point from their Sunday Ligue 1 encounter. They played away against the mighty Olympique Lyonnais at Stade de ...
A Miserable Sunday: Lille Set To Take On Lyon
By Julien | September 21st, 2007Yes you read it correctly. Les Dogues are up against the Roman Empire of Ligue 1, Olympique Lyonnais. Les Gones have won the Ligue 1 ...
Makoun Says Next Season Won’t Be Easy For Lille
By Julien | July 20th, 2007Another LOSC player interview has emerged. Francefootball.fr has interviewed Jean II Makoun, a LOSC midfielder. The interview is pretty long so I will just explain ...
Friendly Defeat and Possible Signing
By Julien | July 8th, 2007Lille's first friendly of the season resulted in a loss. Earlier today at Stade Olympique d’Albertville , LOSC lost 1-3 against Olympique Lyonnais. Lille's Fauvergue ...
Official Transfers, Abidal, and New Stadium
By Julien | June 28th, 2007The official website of Dijon FCO has confirmed the arrival of Alexis Zywiecki to the club for three years. The former Lille defender was out ...
Au revoir Keita and Bodmer
By Julien | June 16th, 2007Recently, Lille's Mathieu Bodmer and Abdul Kader Keita were transferred to Olympique Lyonnais.During a news conference (6/16/07), OL's chairman Jean-Michel announced that Keita was transferred ...
Transfer Time: Ordem e progresso e Lyon
By Sam | January 29th, 2007All of two days and a few hours to go in the transfer window, and have I got news for you! The Brazilian takeover of ...
Matchday 22 - Lyon winless in four, football gods laugh at sport gamblers
By Sam | January 28th, 2007I'm running out of oh-so-slick titles to suggest that Lyon's current winless streak is completely unexpected, thought-provoking and very funny. So yeah, this time, it ...
Matchday 21 - Pigs fly, Pope converts, Lyon loses two in a row
By Sam | January 25th, 2007Which of the above three statements is the most credible? I don't know for sure, but if you asked me a month ago, it'd been ...
Why, that's awful nice of them, no?
By Sam | January 22nd, 2007Them meaning Marseille, the club that's offering their supporters free tickets to the Coupe de France match featuring the two olympiques, Marseille and Lyon. Oh, ...
Transfer Time: Baros hopes the third time's le charme with Lyon
By Sam | January 22nd, 2007Just as both my index fingers suddenly come down with injuries (bagel slicing, you know), Lyon and Bordeaux go and decide to get active with ...
My Coupe runneth over: To be cool, you gotta wait 122 minutes to score the game's first goal
By Sam | January 21st, 2007The last 32 of the Coupe de France saw not many upsets. I mean, argh, only one team from a lower division then its opponent ...
My Coupe runneth over: There, Laurie, just for you
By Sam | January 17th, 2007Please excuse the title if you're not familiar with my ever-so-obssesive sister-in-blog Laurie at WBC. But the fact of the matter is, when Juninho, Coupet, ...
Frédéric Piquionne rejects Saint-Étienne shirt, whip marks on back
By Sam | January 16th, 2007It's a rule of thumb in professional football, at least in France. When a player cleverly compares himself to a slave under the totalitarian and ...
Matchday 20 - Lyon manages to lose against Toulouse
By Sam | January 14th, 2007O God, how the mighty have fallen! Olympique Lyonnais, leader of Ligue 1! Humiliated! With a slender lead of 14 points over second place, got ...
The Sam Awards: Here they are!
By Sam | January 12th, 2007The wait, the suspense, is over. Due to your numerous clamoring comments about needing to know the winners of the immensely sought-after Sam Awards, I've ...
Transfer Time: Lyon to buy Milan?
By Sam | January 10th, 2007Rid yourself of that puzzled look, especially you, Martha, I'm not talking about no Italian nothing, it's the guy I like to call The Wasted ...
My Coupe runneth over: All the big guns are still there, barely
By Sam | January 7th, 2007Not only in France, but everywhere, it's no secret that amateur clubs love Cup competition, it gives them a chance to earn some media attention ...
Midway Report: The Sam Awards
By Sam | December 27th, 2006At the end of 2006, it's of course the time to look back and comment on the issues that touched the soccer world. This year, ...
Matchday 19 - Lyon doesn't win. No, I mean it
By Sam | December 23rd, 2006It's been done by Toulouse, Rennes and Real Madrid. Monaco, now. That's the prestigious club of clubs (oooh) that have managed to not lose against ...
My Coupe runneth over: Lyon, check. A team you've never heard of, check.
By Sam | December 20th, 2006In the Coupe de la Ligue action this week, we saw Bordeaux beat Saint-Étienne in extra time and Le Mans eliminate Sochaux on the road, ...
Matchday 18 - Business as somewhat usual
By Sam | December 18th, 2006Gotta love that picture! This weekend, one match was on everyone's mind. THE big 'un, the newest 2nd-place team, Racing Club de Lens was welcoming ...
Man U and Roma? Oh, it's on
By Sam | December 16th, 2006I was hoping for something along the lines of Lyon-Barca or Lyon-Inter, but I got AS Roma instead. Not bad. I wanted Manchester United, and ...
Paris wants you as a fan, Lyon wants you as an attacker
By Sam | December 11th, 2006The two richest clubs in the country are in two very different pickles lately. One is suffering a horrible season, is having fatal hooligan problems, ...
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