France – The World Cup wasn’t even a month away from the Eurovision Song Contest this year and so France3 decided to promote their official World Cup song through the Contest. Jessy Matador’s 12th place is one of the better positions France has achieved in recent years, which apparently didn’t help the French Équipe to play good soccer in South Africa…
But who gave France points this year and almost as interesting: Who didn’t?
France got no points at all from neighbours and (partly) Francophones Belgium and Switzerland and almost all of (very) Eastern Europe.
The most popular the soccer anthem was in Finland and Greece receiving the maximum of 8 points.In both of these countries the song managed to chart relatively high after the contest.
In Denmark and Portugal, who both sent teams to the World Cup, the song got 7 points.
Jessy’s song was also relatively popular on the Balkan, getting at least 1 point from each of the participating former Yugoslav countries.
Support from the other Big4 countries was rather small with Germany giving 3, Britain and Spain 2 points.
The only Ex-soviet countries voting for France were Armenia and Estonia. Last year Patricia Kaas, who is very popular in these countries could garner more points (f.ex 10 from Russia) for “La Grande Nation”
Ireland, who was kicked out by the French in the qualifications round for the World Cup gave France 6 points! Thierry Henry, who touched the ball with his hand, had not been punished which caused a big scandal as it possibly deprived Ireland of their spot in the World Cup.
Having France’s results in the last 5 years (except Madame Kaas) in mind, this entry has to be seen as a success!
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i dont even like football – or watch the world cup – but this was a GREAT song
(unlike the disasterous football song from Lithuania in 2006 which
that’s the prove that you can have a cheeful song in the contest without some petronizing geezers singing it)
should have got much better place.
I’m quite sure, that in Germany the public voting would have given Jessy Matador much more points than without jury voting.
I can’t believe Spain didn’t give it high points. They love football there. Probably juries ignored the song :( we shall wait for full results
Also, a big surprise that Switzerland and Belgium ignored it. WTF? The song is a hit in Belgian iTunes chart!
Eurovision is not fair :( The French entry was underrated. I think people loved it, but juries didn’t support it, hence the 12th place. I can’t believe it didn’t manage to be at least in top 10. Even Russia surpassed it!! Shame!
I couldn’T believe Spain either… At least they gave Germany 12. But usually Spain gives good points to France even when they have pretty crappy songs. WHo knows. It’s about time the EBU released these jury results so we can see if the juries killed it…
You didn’t mention how Ireland (who France were playing when Thierry Henry handled the ball and thus deprived them of a World Cup spot) gave it 6 points.
haha yeah ;) I’ll add that ;)))
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France is well developed in music, hope they could send some songs with deeper meaning next year, such as Et Sil Fallait Le Faire from Patricia Kaas although Allez Ole Ola is a funny performance.