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Santini reveals Henry-Pires spat
Sunday, 04 July 2004
Former France coach Jacques Santini has confirmed that Arsenal stars Robert Pires and Thierry Henry came to blows during a training session at Euro 2004.
前任法国队主教练桑蒂尼透露，在欧洲杯训练中，皮雷与亨利发生了争吵。
Many reasons have been put forward to explain France's failure at Euro 2004, and it was claimed last week that the Arsenal troika of Henry, Pires and Patrick Vieira fell out with playmaker Zinedine Zidane.
法国队在欧洲杯上表现不佳原因众多，上周有消息说阿森纳的三名队员亨利、皮雷和维埃拉，与齐达内有过争吵。
This rumour was quickly nipped in the bid by Vieira, and it has now emerged that it was two Arsenal players who crossed swords.
但很快维皑拉就否认了这个传闻，而现在则有消息说是两名阿森纳队员产生了矛盾（亨利与皮雷？？）
Santini has confirmed that there was a coming together during a heated training session and left no doubt as to the identity of the pair.
"There were several such training sessions that had a highly charged atmosphere about them," Santini told TF1.
"You know well enough, the two players came from the same club," Santini added when asked to confirm if it was Henry and Pires who fell out.
桑蒂尼被问到是哪两位队员时说到：“他们来自同一家俱乐部球队。”
Santini has claimed that the French coaching staff attempted to dampen the fire during the sessions which followed the clash on the eve of the win over England.
"All the sessions following the clash, we tried to control," said the now Spurs boss who added that he felt the decision took away France's competitive edge.
England captain David Beckham had a poor tournament and he blamed his listless displays on the fact that he had been worked too hard by Real Madrid.
Beckham has been slammed by a number of officials at Real, but he has found a supporter in Santini.
Santini felt Beckham's Real team-mate Zidane did superbly to perform with credit considering he was so tired.
"Zinedine Zidane wanted to do too much as he wanted to have a successful Euro," said Santini. "However, the Real players like David Beckham and Luis Figo weren't in good shape.
"Given those circumstances Zidane played as well as humanly possible."
