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French police have given their British counterparts the images of seven suspects after a black man was pushed off a Paris metro train on Tuesday.

A total of 13 people, including the presidents of Marseille and Caen football clubs, were arrested Tuesday in separate corruption probes.

Club from the village of Luzenac with just 650 people won promotion to the big-time - but official rules now mean the team will be disbanded.

The 40 year-old coach of Ligue 2 side Clermont Foot says she's not a feminist and would dearly like the media to ask her about football.

Challenge by German goalkeeper that broke French defender's jaw but went unpunished still raises anger and emotion in France 32 years later.

Far-right leader says disturbances in France after Algeria's win show immigration policy had 'failed' and that dual-nationals refuse to 'assimilate'.

Mystery surrounds the reasons why the Portuguese coach suddenly left her job at second division club Clermont Foot 63 in central France.

The France players, who won their World Cup opening match Sunday, kicked balls at a drone flying over them while training, goalkeeper says.

French football bosses also sue Anara Atanes who sent expletive-ridden tweet over omission of Nasri from France's World Cup squad.

Portuguese Helena Costa, 36, is to take the helm at French Ligue 2 club Clermont Foot, which says it is entering a 'new era'.

Canal Plus and Qatar-owned Al Jazeera are poised to fight it out for right to broadcast Champions League football in France.

Real Madrid recruit Enzo Fernández, whose dual nationality makes him eligible to play for either country, is named in a France youth squad.

Marseille is, of course, well-known in the football world for its glamorous club Olympique de Marseille - often simply called OM - with its galaxy of star names, its display cabinets stuffed full of trophies and its famous Vélodrome stadium which is being refurbished in time for the Euro 2016 tournament, largely with public money. But there is another, more diverse, side to football in Marseille, which has a total of 112 different clubs, 13,776 registered players and 60 stadia of varying size and condition. This is also the place where one of France's footballing greats Zinedine Zidane was born and honed his skills as a boy, a city where, in housing estates ravaged by poverty and drug-dealing, people play football for pleasure, to fit in, to make something of themselves or simply because there is nothing else to do. And as these striking images from French photographer Patrick Artinian show, people in Marseille are often forced to play football wherever they can find some space.