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Les Bleus versus National Rally | How can sporting success unite a nation? | Jean-Philippe Leclaire | Off The Ball Breakfast

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Les Bleus versus National Rally | How can sporting success unite a nation? | Jean-Philippe Leclaire | Off The Ball Breakfast

Les Bleus versus National Rally | How can sporting success unite a nation? | Jean-Philippe Leclaire | Off The Ball Breakfast

Les Bleus versus National Rally | How can sporting success unite a nation? | Jean-Philippe Leclaire | Off The Ball Breakfast

Les Bleus versus National Rally | How can sporting success unite a nation? | Jean-Philippe Leclaire | Off The Ball Breakfast

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0:00

Welcome to another round of Drawing

0:02

Board or Miro Board. Today we

0:04

discuss technical diagramming with systems architect

0:06

Maya. Let's go. First question. You've

0:08

spent 10 hours slogging over

0:11

a sequence diagram that should have taken 5.

0:13

Drawing board or Miro board? Drawing board.

0:15

And if I'm being honest, Miro would probably

0:18

cut that time down by half. You know,

0:20

with its AI tools and ready-to-go templates. Next,

0:23

your diagrams become so bulky, it's more

0:25

complex than the solar system. But all

0:27

it takes is a few clicks and…

0:29

It's Miro. I've used those technical shape

0:31

packs way too many times. And stuff

0:33

is just digestible on its infinite online

0:35

canvas. Now, the final question. Everyone's

0:38

brought in. But you have to make all

0:40

these tasks all the way over in Jira.

0:42

But wait! It's done! Is it? Easy

0:45

with it's to wage era think easy

0:47

to plug dependencies. Everyone always knows what's

0:49

up and she's. Done it to and

0:51

over sixty million people creating technical diagrams

0:53

without work flow. Going to get your

0:55

first three boards for free at miro.com

0:57

That's M I are. oh.com.

1:28

And Casualty Insurance Company in affiliates Northbrook, Illinois. Right.

1:31

We are going back to the Euros and

1:33

delighted to welcome back to the program Jean-Philippe

1:35

Leclerc. Jean-Philippe, good morning. How are you? Good

1:38

morning. Bonjour. What

1:42

is the national mood in France at

1:44

the moment? Is it an entire fascination

1:46

with the nose of Gillian Mbappe? Yeah,

1:49

exactly. Like it

1:52

was during the World Cup with, you

1:54

remember, DuPont, Antoine DuPont. What? And

1:57

this famous, now famous mask. same

2:00

story with with Mbappe at this time.

2:02

So there was a bit of

2:04

a panic at the end of the game because we

2:07

we thought we were concerned that

2:09

it could be the end of the competition for

2:11

him. But then the first

2:13

news came that it was not so bad

2:15

that he didn't have to

2:18

to have surgery right away. But

2:21

I mean still he's gonna

2:23

miss the the next game

2:25

against Holland and

2:27

if everything goes

2:30

according to plan that we

2:32

beat Holland he may miss

2:34

the game against Poland just just to

2:36

rest. But the

2:38

fact is that I don't think it's really good for him

2:41

not to play because he had a

2:43

very strange season with Pais-en-Germain and

2:45

with a lot of ups and downs.

2:49

And I think he's this kind of player

2:51

like an NBA player who needs to play

2:54

every three days. So I

2:56

mean I don't think

2:58

it's a very good start for yeah

3:00

it's it's it's kind of I'm kind

3:02

of concerned with the Mbappe situation even

3:05

if it's not as bad as we thought

3:07

right after the game. That's interesting because in

3:10

the build-up to the World Cup Antoine

3:12

Griezmann barely played because of the weird

3:14

contractual situation between Barcelona and

3:16

Atletico. And he came in quite

3:18

rested and seemed to benefit from that.

3:20

But the argument with Mbappe seems to be this

3:23

he improves with the regular game time.

3:25

Yeah I think it's

3:27

totally different because what happened

3:29

with Mbappe last season with Pais-en-Germain is

3:32

that he didn't have a proper summer

3:36

preparation because of the

3:38

conflict with with Pais-en-Germain.

3:41

And then since he announced which was

3:44

back in January or February that

3:46

he wouldn't add a

3:49

one year to his contract.

3:52

There was a fight with him

3:54

and Nasser Khaleefi and

3:56

Nasser didn't want him to play

3:58

anymore but Ubi Sanrika said I

4:00

need him. So it was

4:03

in this situation like some

4:05

games he was in the starting 11, some

4:08

other games he was on the

4:10

bench. So it was and

4:13

I've already told you and Bape is this kind

4:15

of player he needs to play every three games.

4:17

It's not a problem for him. So

4:20

I think he even from

4:22

what we have seen during the game

4:25

against Austria,

4:29

it's like he has kind of

4:31

lost his killer instinct. He

4:34

was not as confident as

4:36

he was in Qatar for the World Cup. He

4:39

missed some chances that usually he

4:43

doesn't miss. So even before

4:45

the no situation, I don't

4:47

think his game against Austria

4:49

was very good. Right. Do

4:51

you think France can win the tournament if

4:54

Bape is not as best or not close

4:57

to his best? The

5:00

problem overall is that not many, I mean

5:02

we have big names of course. If you

5:04

look at the

5:06

full squad, we have a lot of big names. But

5:09

if you look at every player situation,

5:11

only few of them have done a

5:13

great season. If

5:15

you look at the Connate

5:18

with Liverpool or Upamecano with

5:20

Bayern, even Mike Menon

5:22

with Assimilian, he had a

5:24

lot of injuries. So many players like this, I

5:27

mean the players that really

5:29

had a great season are Pavar

5:31

or Marcus Tuham for

5:33

Inter for example. But Pavar

5:36

didn't play or is considered as

5:38

a substitute by the show. And

5:40

Tuham didn't play in his best

5:43

position. So it's

5:46

not the best start. It

5:48

was the same before Qatar,

5:50

but I'm a little more

5:52

concerned now than I was

5:54

before at the beginning of the tournament in

5:56

Qatar. Okay, that's interesting because

5:58

the rest of the world is like... looking at the French team,

6:00

a gog at the talent

6:02

level they have and scared of

6:04

what they're going to be like when they actually start to hit form.

6:08

Yes, but football is

6:10

not only a question of names, but

6:13

it's mostly a question of

6:15

how do you play together

6:17

and in what kind of

6:19

shape you are before entering

6:21

the tournament. And

6:24

we have to face the

6:26

truth. I mean, not many

6:28

players, the friendly games

6:31

were not very good. Even look

6:34

at the situation for next game, who's going

6:36

to play instead of Mbappe.

6:40

Normally, it should be Giroud, but

6:42

Giroud's got a beginning of growing

6:45

injury. And

6:48

his friendly games were with France

6:50

before the tournament were very bad.

6:53

So who else could it

6:55

be? Colomuani, he didn't have

6:57

a very good season with Paris Saint-Germain, far

6:59

from that. So of

7:02

course, you got all those big names, all

7:04

those players, hugely talented, but are they at

7:06

the top of their form for this tournament?

7:09

It's not so obvious. Can

7:12

we talk a little bit about the political

7:14

context around what's happened when

7:17

Mbappe and

7:19

Turam came out and spoke about this?

7:21

It felt like a

7:23

big moment in world sport in many ways because

7:25

the English players are not saying anything about this.

7:27

The German players, it seems, are not saying anything

7:29

about it. So what

7:32

has the response been like? I mean, we see

7:34

what the response from RN is, but what has

7:36

the response been like from most

7:38

French people to what's happened? Usually

7:42

when football players say

7:45

what takes political

7:47

stance, you get a reaction.

7:49

People who

7:51

say, they are

7:53

so rich, they don't even live

7:55

in France, and they shouldn't talk

7:57

like this. at

12:00

miro.com. That's miro.com. This

12:03

is not the first time that

12:05

we've seen the French players at loggerheads

12:07

with politicians in the country. Jean-Marie

12:10

Le Pen in 2006 famously

12:12

questioning the ferocity with which the

12:14

French players would sing their national

12:16

anthem. You had obviously

12:18

Marcus's father Lillian come out afterwards

12:21

critical in return saying things that like

12:24

Le Pen doesn't realize that some French people are

12:26

black and other people have not got blonder brown

12:28

hair. And there has been this

12:30

culture even from Zidane's point of view he's

12:32

said that the national front was a party

12:34

which does not correspond to all the valleys

12:37

of France around the 2002 World Cup. You

12:39

have this culture of players who have been

12:42

willing to at least hit back on

12:44

certain sections of the French political class.

12:47

Yeah it really starts I remember it

12:49

really starts in 1996 for the euro

12:51

in England. That was the first time

12:54

that Jean-Marie Le Pen doesn't

12:56

know a thing about football. That's the

12:59

first time that he said that there

13:01

were too many foreigners in the French

13:03

national routine that the French national team

13:05

said was artificial. And there

13:08

was a response at the time from

13:10

the players even including Gilead de Champs

13:12

who said that what Le Pen said was

13:15

really useless. And since that

13:17

because I've been Jean-Marie

13:19

Le Pen I've made some this kind

13:22

of comments a few times and

13:24

the players answered to that. And

13:27

I think the first time that Zidane I

13:29

mean Zidane doesn't really like to talk about

13:31

politics is a little bit like you

13:34

know Michael Jordan at the time like

13:37

the less he talks about politics

13:39

the better he feels. But with

13:42

what happened I think it was in 2002 when

13:45

it was already macro against Marie

13:48

Le Pen. For the

13:50

first time Zidane said that he was

13:52

against the national front and that

13:55

he thought that it would be bad for the country

13:57

to have Le Pen for president. And

14:00

And so, yes, there is this

14:02

history between the national

14:04

front, what was the national front,

14:06

not what is the national rally.

14:09

I think that's how you call them. And

14:13

when you look at the team, even right now,

14:15

that's for sure. It's not the kind of, it's

14:19

not the ideal French team for

14:21

the ex-national front. Too

14:24

many, that's what Le Pen said in

14:26

the past, too many current players. But

14:31

Marine Le Pen has

14:33

been more cautious about it because

14:35

she knows that the French

14:38

national team, after all the

14:40

success they had those recent

14:42

years when they won the World

14:44

Cup in Russia and then the final

14:46

in Qatar, they have been hugely popular in

14:48

France. Some

14:51

fans, some football fans that don't

14:53

really, even don't really follow Paris

14:56

Saint-Germain Marseille, they're just football

14:58

fans, a lot of middle class,

15:00

a lot of families. And so

15:03

even the national front, the

15:05

ex-national front, the Marine

15:07

Le Pen, Jordan Barbella, they

15:10

are very careful about what they say about

15:12

this team because they

15:14

know this team is very popular. So

15:17

as long as this team wins, I

15:20

think they will keep

15:22

it quiet. Imagine

15:25

if we get kicked out after the first

15:27

round, yeah, it's going to

15:29

be, once again we will hear the

15:31

ones of Le Pen and stuff saying

15:33

bad things about Le Bleu. That's for

15:36

sure. They only wait for that. Yeah,

15:39

it takes a pretty high, like it's interesting to bring us back

15:41

to 1996 there. It's

15:43

obviously been well written about and

15:45

it's well remembered for people who remember it

15:47

well. It's just the unifying

15:49

force of 1998 or the

15:51

reporting of a unifying force. I'm not sure how

15:53

real that feels with the benefit of 26 years

15:55

of hindsight. Like, does that

15:58

feel like a bit of a facade? at

16:00

this moment or something that was a bit

16:02

fleeting? Or did you feel that 1998 was a real answer

16:06

to what Le Pen said in 96 and

16:08

it had a long lasting impact? Yes, we

16:11

call it the La France Black

16:13

Blonde Bur. But

16:15

once again, it was because we won

16:17

the World Cup. And

16:20

I don't think it's not fair

16:22

to expect too much from football

16:24

players. I mean, if they

16:26

can just give a sense of joy and

16:28

excitement to a country for even for a

16:31

short period of time, just the

16:33

time to, I mean, that's what happened in

16:35

1998 for

16:38

the final, even for the semi-final, all

16:40

the country was in the street and

16:42

everybody was waving French flags, even if

16:44

you were a national front or

16:49

if you were living in the country

16:51

side of the, or

16:53

if you were living in the suburbs.

16:56

And, but it doesn't

16:59

really last. It only

17:01

lasted, I mean,

17:03

few months after Le Pen was

17:05

a super round of the presidential

17:07

election. So you

17:09

can expect too much from

17:11

football if it gives you a sense

17:14

of joy and excitement for

17:16

a couple of, for a few

17:18

weeks, I mean, a few

17:20

months. I mean, that's enough. But

17:24

football is not gonna cure all of

17:26

the problems. That's for sure. I mean,

17:28

they are much bigger than football at

17:30

the moment in France. So

17:33

if we win this Euro,

17:35

that will be great for the country. If we,

17:38

if our athletes succeed at the Olympic Games,

17:40

that would be great. But

17:43

at the end of August, I'm not

17:45

sure that will solve all our problems,

17:48

especially if we have a national

17:50

front prime minister. That's

17:52

for sure. And it is critical at this point that

17:55

those elections are gonna take place before the Olympic

17:57

games. I know you were in the French West Indies

17:59

over the past. couple of days looking at the torch.

18:02

I'm just back. I'm just back, yes. Talk

18:05

to us. I was in a French

18:07

Western days in Matinec because my father

18:09

in law was a

18:12

torch bearer for the Olympic

18:14

relay. So he did the Olympic

18:16

games in 64 and 68 in Mexico. He

18:21

was one of the best

18:23

ever eye jumper in France. Wow.

18:27

We went with him in

18:29

his native French Matinec. That

18:32

was a great day

18:34

for him and a great day for the family.

18:36

The 68 Olympics, they take place at altitude. So

18:38

I guess he must have jumped pretty high. Not

18:42

as high as he expected because he was

18:44

among the favorites. And

18:46

he was very disappointed because he only finished

18:49

ninths. One of the most

18:51

famous competition of eye jump ever

18:54

because it was won by Fosbury.

18:56

That was the beginning of the Fosbury flop. My

19:01

father in law only finished ninths. Even

19:05

this day, if you talk about it with him,

19:07

he's still very... He

19:09

doesn't like to talk about it. He's

19:12

still very disappointed

19:15

that he didn't have

19:18

a medal in Mexico. The

19:21

Mexico games are one of the most

19:23

fascinating and interesting periods of all

19:26

the stuff we're talking about. Sport as an agent

19:28

for social change and all it

19:31

can really do is reflect. Thomas

19:33

Smith was in Paris last

19:35

week. I went to listen

19:37

to him. It was very

19:39

interesting, especially given the second

19:42

instance is now in France. Always

19:45

great to have you with us. John Philippe, thanks a million for making the

19:47

time. No

19:49

problem. Interesting

19:52

summer in France, interesting summer in Ireland. It's

19:54

been a theme of the show. Football

19:58

can't fix us, but we can use it. it as

20:00

an agent of change. No. Sure. But

20:02

also, you kind of have to commend the French

20:04

players in saying what they're saying. Amazing stuff. It

20:06

really is, because it's. There's

20:09

no profits for them. No. And they've

20:11

just increased the pressure on themselves 10-fold.

20:14

You can see Le Pen's party.

20:17

Certainly, their opinions are on ice for now, because

20:19

they know that there's a chance that France might

20:21

go and win this competition. But already, you can

20:23

hear from the party that's patronizing Adroni footballers. They

20:25

don't really know what they're talking about. If France

20:28

bomb out in this group stage,

20:30

which isn't likely to be fair, if they

20:32

have this point in knockout stage, results, you

20:35

can imagine that that goes from opinions on

20:37

ice to flamethrowers, all guns blazing

20:39

at these players. So that's what's coming. And

20:41

it's coming on a say when this tournament

20:43

is expect. Yeah. Welcome

20:46

to another round of drawing board or

20:48

Miro board. Today, we discuss technical diagramming

20:50

with systems architect, Maya. Let's go. First

20:53

question. You've spent 10 hours slogging over

20:55

a sequence diagram that should have taken

20:57

five, drawing board or Miro board? Drawing

20:59

board. And if I'm being honest, Miro

21:01

would probably cut that time down by

21:04

half, you know, with its AI tools

21:06

and ready to go templates. Next, your

21:08

diagrams become so bulky, it's more complex

21:10

than the solar system. But all it

21:13

takes is a few clicks and? It's

21:15

Miro. I've used those technical shape packs

21:17

way too many times. And stuff is

21:19

just digestible on its infinite online canvas.

21:21

Now, the final question. Everyone's brought in.

21:24

But you have to make all these

21:26

tasks all the way over in Jira.

21:28

But wait, it's done. Is it? Miro,

21:30

easy with its two-way Jira sync. Easy

21:33

to plot dependencies. Everyone always knows

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what's up. And she's done it.

21:37

Join over 60 million people creating

21:39

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21:41

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