“We are going there to win and we are going for it alone. France, a great soccer nation with 2,500,000 registered footballers, must go it alone in this conquest. There is a common desire of everyone in soccer [in France] to do it and do it alone.” French soccer federation president Jean-Pierre Escalettes, emphatically (albeit redundantly) stating his confidence in the country’s ability to host a successful Euro 2016 solo (rather than a proposed co-hosting with Italy), just as they were the lone home to the FIFA World Cup in 1998.