🏈0️⃣6️⃣3️⃣ Jan Woska
Meet Jan Woska, who connects the USA and France using sport as a tool to highlight historic, cultural and economic ties between Louisiana and France with the aim to make the New Orleans Saints the most beloved American football team in France.
⚽0️⃣6️⃣2️⃣ Zohair Ghenania
Meet Zohair Ghenania, Founder and President of the FFF Academy New York who is creating new transatlantic plays by mixing education and football (soccer).
🏀0️⃣6️⃣1️⃣ Fabrice Gautier
Meet Fabrice Gautier, the “Flying Osteopath” whose work with athletes on both sides of the Atlantic builds bridges as he translates and fine-tunes French understandings of the United States and vice versa.
🥋0️⃣6️⃣0️⃣ Clarisse Agbegnenou
Meet Clarisse Agbegnenou, an elite judoka and Olympic champion whose fighting spirit on and off the tatami mat is a masterclass in resilience, from France to the United States and beyond.
🎩0️⃣5️⃣9️⃣ Rebecca Ross
Meet Rebecca Ross, a veteran U.S. diplomat who, as the U.S. Attaché for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, opened new doors in the transatlantic partnership through sports and helped illustrate the Games’ potential for diplomacy.
👟0️⃣5️⃣8️⃣ Océane Cardoso
Meet Océane Andrea Cardoso, a Master's student at NYU in Sports Business and sports content creator who found her passion through endurance sports and a desire to challenge herself.
⚽0️⃣5️⃣7️⃣ Jessica Silva
Meet Jessica Silva, head coach of Brooklyn FC and a pioneer whose transatlantic coaching career is rewriting the playbook for women’s soccer, one hat-trick at a time.
🥇🥈🥉🏀0️⃣5️⃣6️⃣ Travis Murphy
Meet Travis Murphy, a CEO, founder, and a former diplomat whose journey from the Kansas heartland to the helm of JETR Global Sports + Entertainment is a testament to the power of blending diverse experiences and a passion for public service.
🎩0️⃣5️⃣5️⃣ Ambassador Samuel Ducroquet
Meet Samuel Ducroquet, the Ambassador for Sport at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs who is helping to forge closer relations between France and the United States through the sports diplomacy prism.
🗞️🌍🌎0️⃣5️⃣4️⃣ Bruno Lalande
Meet Bruno Lalande, a sports businessman and publisher who has helped bridge transatlantic divides between France, the United States, and Africa thanks to the sporting realm.
🥇🥈🥉0️⃣5️⃣3️⃣Leon Nelson
Meet Leon Nelson, a graduate student at New York University working in the sport industry who gained new insights about France, its culture, and sporting scene as an International Client Relations Manager at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
⛳0️⃣5️⃣2️⃣ Adrien Pendariès
Meet Adrien Pendariès, a Franco-American golfer writing new chapters in the transatlantic game at the collegiate, professional, and elite levels.
⛳0️⃣5️⃣1️⃣ Robynne Pendariès
Meet Robynne Pendariès, an American who discovered different aspects of France via golf as a manager, wife, and parent of golfers, writing new chapters into what it takes to navigate the transatlantic elite, professional, and collegiate sports worlds.
⛳0️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ Léa Pendariès
Meet Léa Pendariès, a Franco-American student athlete bridging the transatlantic drives via golf. Everywhere I go, I take my French norms and culture with me, whether that’s on or off the golf course.
⛳0️⃣4️⃣9️⃣ Marc Pendariès
Meet Marc Pendariès, a former golf professional-turned-coach who drives transatlantic exchanges one shot at a time.
🎩0️⃣4️⃣8️⃣ Michael Turner
Meet Michael Turner, Counselor for Cultural Affairs at U.S. Embassy France (2022-present) who has taken great strides in using sports to connect the United States and France over the past two years.
🏎️0️⃣4️⃣7️⃣ Hélène “Hellé Nice” Delangle
Meet Helen Delangle, aka “Hellé Nice,” a global sports celebrity who set speed records during her career-long quest to compete on equal terms with male counterparts on auto racing circuits from Europe and North Africa to the Americas.
🏀0️⃣4️⃣6️⃣ Vincent Collet
Meet Vincent Collet, the former player-turned-coach whose transatlantic hoops influences and relationships inform his work with professional teams, as well as that with Team France.
⚾0️⃣4️⃣5️⃣ Benjie Meleras
Meet Benjie Meleras, a French-American helping to elevate baseball on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
✍️🏀0️⃣4️⃣4️⃣ Deliah Mathieu
Meet Deliah Mathieu, a public relations and communications strategist whose storytelling work on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean have helped foster greater French-American understandings through sport.
Mapping the Connections
The connections highlighted by #FranceAndUS Voices over time.
Blue = From the United States to France. Red = From France to the United States.