Just For Fun
By: Inara | October 29th, 2007Lyon Foot recently had an article on the favorite athletes of Lyon players outside of football. Some of them make sense, but some of them will surprise you!
Roger Federer: Juninho, Fabio Grosso, Sebastien Squillaci, Romain Beynie, Karim Benzema, Patrick Muller, Sidney Govou
LeBron James: Mathieu Bodmer, Joan Hartock
Tony Parker: Nadir Belhadj, Loic Remy
Jaromir Jagr: Milan Baros
Jackson Richardson: Remy Vercoutre
Kobe Bryant: Kader Keita
Peter Forsberg: Kim Kallstrom
Rafael Nadal: Anthony Reveillere, Fabio Santos, Fred, Hatem Ben Arfa
Jerome Pineau: Jeremy Toulalan
Julien Bonnaire: Gregory Coupet
Richard Gasquet: Sandy Paillot
Category: Just for Fun
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I’m surprised more didn’t pick Tony Parker. He’s like the best of both worlds — French and American.
And I knew without looking that Coupet’s would be a rugby player.
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My brother rooted for Sweden in the 2002 World Cup based entirely on Peter Forsberg. I think he tends to pull for the Czechs these days, though…
Is that handball in the fifth picture? I still don’t entirely understand handball, but it fascinates me.
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And all the athletes listed hear would be no where if weren’t for the greatest athlete of all time. MICHAEL JORDAN!
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I’m not surprised. Top sportsmen always admire other top athletes.
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At least Kallstrom and Baros have good taste…
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lol I truly think that Toulalan is… different
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weird choice from Toulalan. Im surprised noone chose the snooker or petanque world champion
As for handball, it is a great game. Fast, spectacular, great moves… etc. It’s a shame English speaking countries are not into it.
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mentally speaking i can see why so many admire Federer, the guy is a rock.
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Toulalan just proves my point. That guy is a bore
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pineau and toulalan are friends in RL.
källström and baros choosing hockey players is to be expected, it’s the n°1 sport in their countries.
the only surprises i had were vercoutre’s choice of JR since he is a big basketball fan, and gasquet only getting one call, since the french are very big on tennis.
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Interesting pick from Sandy Paillot. And Toulalan’s pick, of course its boring, he is a dull guy. He lists his greatest pleasure as taking walks with his family.
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guignol - Oh ok. It makes some sense
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The interesting thing about Toulalan is that he doesn’t actually like football outside of Lyon. He readily admits that he doesn’ follow the sport and results of other teams - his dad is the fan in the family. Growing up, he didn’t have any “idols” like so many others did, and if you asked him what club he most wants to join, he’d come up blank.
Of course he also knows which clubs are big and which isn’t, but I think that’s one of the reasons Toulalan never gets carried away with himself.
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My vote go for => Reveillere, Santos, Ben Arfa and Fred => Nadal.
Coupet, like you said, we already know that he would pick a rugby player.
I’m surprised too, no Michael Jordan here.
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Michael Jordan is not very popular in France.
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Govou is not a big football fan either, he wants to be a school teacher.
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govou was fonder of mathematics than football until it looked likely he could make a pro career out of it, and i think he has a bac S.
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