That run has given France hope Santini's team will successfully defend their European Championship crown.
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He is also remembered for his role as the jovial Dominic Santini in the 1980s series Airwolf.
Admittedly their group was not the most demanding opposition as Santini's team steamrollered Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia and Israel.
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Marlet is in no doubt that rich vein of form has had much to do with Santini's leadership skills.
BBC: SPORT | Football | Euro 2004 | France | Marlet praises Santini work
Anelka turned down the request, saying he felt France coach Jacques Santini did not really want him in the squad.
The Marseille striker knows Santini well - Marlet played under the French coach when he was in charge of Lyon.
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Their poor displays in the Far East saw the French replace Lemerre with Santini and Les Bleus have never looked back.
BBC: SPORT | Football | Euro 2004 | France | Marlet praises Santini work
Miniature valves weren't an option, Santini says, because of the danger that once in the body they could open at the wrong time or get stuck open.
In South Carolina author Pat Conroy's semi-autobiographical novel "The Great Santini, " a fighter-pilot father squishes turtles during a late-night drive when he thinks his wife and kids are asleep.
John Santini, its boss, says his company is working on drug delivery with a big pharmaceuticals firm, and that his laboratory curiosity will be a commercial reality within three to five years.
"He is very clever, " said Marlet of Santini.
BBC: SPORT | Football | Euro 2004 | France | Marlet praises Santini work
"It worked most of the time in animals, but we can't have 'most of the time'" in people, says Santini, who left MicroChips this year to lead a spinoff company working on a similar technology to treat eye diseases.
John Santini was a summer intern in the lab of MIT bioengineering wizard Robert Langer in 1993 when Langer presented an intriguing idea: Why not use semiconductor manufacturing equipment to build tiny pharmacies that can be implanted in sick patients?
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