England, and several have served as captain, notably Paul Ince, John Barnes and Sol Campbell. Nowadays in the bigger leagues minority players have become part of football, and are supported. This was seen in the France national team which won the 1998 FIFA World Cup: the squad was composed of Frenchmen of various backgrounds, including immigrants from or descendants of several countries/colonies, such as Argentina (David Trezeguet), Senegal (Patrick Vieira), French Guiana (Bernard Lama), Martinique (Thierry Henry), Guadeloupe (Lilian Thuram and Bernard Diomède), Ghana (Marcel Desailly), plus a New Caledonian (Christian Karembeu), an ethnic Armenian and Kalmyk (Youri Djorkaeff), another player of Armenian descent (Alain Boghossian), a Basque speaker (Bixente Lizarazu) as well as captain Didier Deschamps from the same region, a Breton (Stephane Guivarc'h), Robert Pires whose parents hailed from Portugal and Spain, and an ethnic Berber (Zinedine Zidane). This composition was seen as an inheritance of former French colonialism, in a country where the proportion of immigrants still remains a source of tension and conflict. Incidents in 2004 have also shown this to be the case in some bigger leagues, where there are a visible number of players from a different ethnicity. A notable incident occurred that year when England played Spain in Madrid, and home fans were heard by the world media to be making "monkey chants" at some of the black players on the pitch, forcing the Spanish football authorities to apologise for their fans. On November 27, 2005, Marc Zoro, a player from Côte d'Ivoire, was playing for the Italian team Messina when he was racially abused by Inter Milan fans to the extent that he picked up the ball and threatened to leave the field. This caused the Italian football authorities to propose to start the following week's matches late after an anti-racism display. This came at the same time that European Union legislators were threatening Europe-wide legal sanctions against national football associations and clubs whose fans were seen to take part in racist actions. Australia Ethnic minorities were instrumental in establishing the National Soccer League, which lasted from 1977 to 2004 as Australia's top-flight competition; however, clubs such as South Melbourne, Sydney Olympic, Sydney United, Adelaide City and Marconi were met with a policy established by League head David Hill to cut ties with their ethnicity. Names such as "Hellas", "Croatia" and "Juventus" were removed from clubs in an attempt to draw new