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Expelled Anelka: Team unified in boycott

Updated: July 15, 2010, 7:21 PM ET
Associated Press

PARIS -- Nicolas Anelka said Thursday all of his teammates decided to go on strike at the World Cup after he was sent home from South Africa for verbally abusing France coach Raymond Domenech and refusing to apologize.

The Chelsea striker told France Soir that "everybody stuck together" when the players decided to boycott a training session shortly before their World Cup ended in the group stage.

Anelka, who recently signed a one-year contract extension with Chelsea that will ...

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