ISRAELI BLOCKADE OF GAZA MAY HAVE LED TO DISMAL FRENCH SHOWING AT WORLD CUP

Bloemfontein, South Africa (World Soccer News Service - WSNS) (24 June 2010)France's unprecedentedly abysmal World Cup campaign came to an end earlier this week. The initial assessment attributed the poor French showing to a lack of team spirit and acrimony which came to a head in an expletive-filled rant at the team's coach during France's 2-0 loss to Mexico. However, WSNS has now been able to confirm that the French team's atrocious play was caused by the teams' distress over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. One French player told WSNS that "it was impossible to focus on a game when the Israelis are starving people to death in Gaza." A high ranking French official stated that all of France "recognizes that given the daily tragedies in Gaza, the team's attempts to even play was truly heroic and in the spirit of Marshall Petain." None of the team members or government officials would speak on the record due to fears of the Jewish and Zionist controlled media. WSNS will report additional details as they emerge.