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Originally Posted by irishking15
ha he didnt even make the france squad for euro's.
rumblerge we'll see about evra next week
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Evra fears no starting place in all-star France team
Patrice Evra has admitted he still does not expect to make France's starting XI for Euro 2008 despite having just won the Champions League and Premier League with Manchester United.
Evra left United's double celebrations to join Raymond Domenech's provisional 30-man French squad as they prepare to face Italy, Holland and Romania in the group stage. Only 23 players can be included in the final squad.
Evra admits he has some way to go before seeing himself as being on the same level as some of his national team-mates. "I'm not going to expect a place in the starting XI just because I'm a European champion," he said at the French national camp.
"I've come here with more confidence and I'm going to show that. But I don't feel like an international. I don't even have 10 caps, I've only got nine. An international is someone who has had a great tournament."
As for last week's Champions League final, the French left-back has defended his compatriot Nicolas Anelka and thinks John Terry, who missed the chance to win the penalty shoot-out, was most culpable. "In England they want to say that we won because of Nico but, as far as I'm concerned, the decisive penalty was John Terry's. When Terry slipped I knew that we were going to win. I knew nothing could stop us."
Evra is now just as confident of continuing this season's success in Austria and Switzerland, where he believes the World Cup runners-up will be one of the favourites to win.
"All our players play in the biggest clubs in Europe and the Lyon players are seven-times champions of France," he explained. Every player in our squad strikes fear into our opponents."