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Here in the epicenter of soccer dysfunction, we have yet another ghastly headline involving those chaotic French footballers. Franck Ribery didn't manage a goal during the World Cup, but he was charged with scoring illegally during his 26th birthday party in Berlin, when he had sex with a prostitute who was under 18. He was grilled by police for seven hours here this week and, if convicted, faces up to three years in prison.
"I never knowingly did anything wrong,'' said Ribery, who is 27, married, the father of two children and says he flew in the call girl from France for the occasion.
So add this to the mayhem that shamed the national team during the just-completed World Cup, a disgrace to the mother land that only reconfirmed that the French, in...
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