In 2005, French-Jewish conservative writer Alain Finkielkraut caused controversy by punning to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that despite its earlier slogan, "the French national team is in fact black-black-black," and also adding that, "France is made fun of all around Europe because of that."
2005. godine francuski filozof Alain Finkielkraut uzrokovao je kontroverzu sa svojim napisima u izraelskim novinama Haaretz da je, unatoč svom sloganu "francuska reprezentacija zapravo crna-crna-crna" te također nadodao da se "s Francuskom sprdaju po cijeloj Europi upravo zbog toga".