Lacam-Caron thought that joining the Flash might bring him even closer to her. His relationship with football endured longer than his relationship with the girl, who he later married then divorced. He has never left the Flash, through the long period when the team was a glorified group of friends playing in a park, to now as a European Football League powerhouse. The Flash have won the French championship nine times and claimed a European championship.
There are now approximately more than 22, American football players in France, up from 2, 20 years ago. He stole car radios and sold them. The other guys stole money, cars and wallets. We come in like virgin people. The sport shaped him as he and his teammates were simultaneously interpreting it 5, miles from the States. In the years since, Lacam-Caron has helped build the Flash into a self-sufficient football machine, just as other programs are being molded in hidden places around France.
French football exists. It is spreading as a whisper you must be privileged enough to hear. I think the Washington State head coach thinks I know because of my name, and because I pronounce French words better than he does. Leach has been a friend and consultant to the program since He knows the Flash almost as well as anyone, but curiosity gets ahead of him a lot.
Leach loves history and wants to travel more, talk to more people, and see more things. His first head coaching job β 11 years before he took over Texas Tech, and 23 years before he took over Washington State β was with the Pori Bears in Finland. He had to have an interpreter tell his players what he wanted them to do.
Physical demonstrations often translated better than words. Mumme declined the offer, but he put Shaver in touch with Leach, who was living in Florida without a coaching job. Leach had wanderlust and a lot of time on his hands. He and Lacam-Caron exchanged a few phone calls, and then Leach was on a plane to spend a week in La Courneuve as a guest of the Flash. In La Courneuve, a street market envelops the games.
