Platini

Listening to French news I learn that French soccer legend Michel Platini is running for president.

French Word-A-Day: 2007

Listening to French news I learn that French soccer legend Michel Platini is running for president.

élire - French Word-A-Day 2007

Perhaps Platini is truly the knight in shining armor, arriving in the midst of French elections where candidates 'bloopers and blunders are ... bountiful (this latest boo-boo from Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal -- after she answered "one" when questioned on the number of French nuclear submarines -- only to change her mind, "Ah yes, seven" [there are, apparently, four] ...).

French Word-A-Day: 2007

Perhaps Platini is truly the knight in shining armor, arriving in the midst of French elections where candidates 'bloopers and blunders are ... bountiful (this latest boo-boo from Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal -- after she answered "one" when questioned on the number of French nuclear submarines -- only to change her mind, "Ah yes, seven" [there are, apparently, four] ...).

élire - French Word-A-Day 2007

Platini is as good a pick as any, I decide, and perhaps in five years* time even Amélie* or Gérard* will be in the running for president of France and, well, what of it?

French Word-A-Day: 2007

Perhaps Platini is truly the knight in shining armor, arriving in the midst of French elections where candidates 'bloopers and blunders are ... bountiful (this latest boo-boo from Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal -- after she answered "one" when questioned on the number of French nuclear submarines -- only to change her mind, "Ah yes, seven" [there are, apparently, four] ...).

French Word-A-Day: 2007

Listening to French news I learn that French soccer legend Michel Platini is running for president.

French Word-A-Day: 2007

Platini is as good a pick as any, I decide, and perhaps in five years* time even Amélie* or Gérard* will be in the running for president of France and, well, what of it?

French Word-A-Day: 2007

Platini is as good a pick as any, I decide, and perhaps in five years* time even Amélie* or Gérard* will be in the running for president of France and, well, what of it?

élire - French Word-A-Day 2007

By coming out of international retirement and showing plenty of magical flair at 34 while leading Les Bleus back to the title match, "Zizou" has ended the debate of whether he or the legendary Michel Platini is his country's all-time best player.

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