The text aims to propose a reflection on the discourses produced on the participation of intercultural athletes - of African or Antillean origin - in the French football team in recent years. Starting from the theoretical frameworks linked to African and postcolonial studies, and the result of a larger investigation, the intention of this essay is to examine how French society - with its population sets and complex hybrids - promotes, interprets and rejects, from the images and ideas circulating on African / Antilleans immigrants and their descendants, the understanding of their identities and intercultural and multicultural relations generated by postcolonial diasporas. From the listed assumptions selected for an initial reflection reports in the European press about the performance of athletes in intercultural French team after the World Cup in South Africa in 2010.
Identities; intercultural players; diaspora