Patrick Vignal

Position: Journalist

Articles

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"Magician" Santoro bids farewell with Paris defeat November 08, 04:01pm EST 

PARIS (Reuters) - Frenchman Fabrice Santoro pulled the curtain on a remarkable and atypical career by losing to American James Blake in the first round of the Paris Masters on Sunday.  Full Article 

Blog Posts

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Why St Etienne are green with envy

If you don't mind the sight of St Etienne glued near the bottom of the Ligue 1 table, you did not grow up in France in the 1970s. Everybody there then had two teams, their own and Les Verts (The Greens). ...  Full Article | Comments [3] 

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The school of hard knocks

Luis Yanez, a pocket-sized 19-year-old from Duncanville, Texas, wipes his sore nose with his bandaged hand and catches his breath, showing off a string of broken down teeth. Grandly nicknamed the Latin ...  Full Article | Comments [1] 

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Ronaldo and total football may not be the winning formula

Total football is everywhere these days, in newspaper headlines and pub conversations. A few exciting performances from attack-minded teams at Euro 2008 and we're back in the 1970s. Endless guitar solos, ...  Full Article | Comments [5]