Sagna looks to the future

Sagna believes the future is bright as Les Bleus look to move on

By Razwan Mirza   Last updated: 24th August 2010   Subscribe to RSS Feed

Sagna looks to the future

Sagna: The future is bright

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Defender Bacary Sagna has called on France to move on from their World Cup debacle.

The Arsenal right-back was involved in every moment of Les Bleus' disastrous campaign in South Africa where Raymond Domenech's side finished bottom of Group A.

Sagna and his team-mates were involved in a much publicised falling out with then manager Domenech following the sending home of Nicolas Anelka.

Laurent Blanc has since replaced Domenech at the helm and France's footballing authorities handed bans to Nicolas Anelka, Patrice Evra, Franck Ribery and Jeremy Toulalan as punishment for what he deemed a 'collective act'.

However, the 27-year-old now feels that France should now be looking to the future.

"It's time to move on," he told Arsenal's official matchday programme.

"In fact it was time to move on before (these bans).

"We keep talking about it but it's the past. We should care about building the future.

"We made some mistakes, and we played badly. Everything started because we were bad on the pitch, not because of what was said in the papers. Now we want to move forward. We have to start from nothing again."

New start

Sagna was pleased despite France's recent friendly defeat against Norway, in which all 23 members of the squad from the World Cup were banned from taking part in.

"I watched the friendly against Norway and they played well, they played like Arsenal," added Sagna.

"The first half was very good, in the second half there were many changes and they ended up losing (2-1) but the game was very interesting.

"The good thing now is that we can have a completely new start, and think about what has happened, and about what we want to achieve."

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