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The Football Association have defended the video designed to help David James cope with the threat of France's attack - but did not feature any Zinedine Zidane free-kicks.
James revealed that he had watched tapes of France in action but he was unprepared for Zidane's moment of dead-ball genius which brought his team level at 1-1 a minute into stoppage time.
An FA spokesman explained: "We've video-taped all of France's recent games, around seven in all, and highlighted all the significant set-pieces. The fact is there were no free-kicks by Zidane during that period that were at all threatening."
Les Bleus went on to win 2-1 as Zidane coolly dispatched a penalty when James sent Thierry Henry flying in the box.
Zidane did, in fact, score with a free-kick in the last European Championships in Holland and Belgium four years ago, opening the scoring with a curled effort in the quarter-finals against Spain.
James revealed that he had watched tapes of France in action but he was unprepared for Zidane's moment of dead-ball genius which brought his team level at 1-1 a minute into stoppage time.
An FA spokesman explained: "We've video-taped all of France's recent games, around seven in all, and highlighted all the significant set-pieces. The fact is there were no free-kicks by Zidane during that period that were at all threatening."
Les Bleus went on to win 2-1 as Zidane coolly dispatched a penalty when James sent Thierry Henry flying in the box.
Zidane did, in fact, score with a free-kick in the last European Championships in Holland and Belgium four years ago, opening the scoring with a curled effort in the quarter-finals against Spain.
