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Renault opts for football.

Automotive News Europe,  June, 2002  by Barton, Geoff

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French international footballer Thierry Henry is being paid more than 1 million to star in Renault Clio television advertisements.

Henry took over from French actress Estelle Skornik, who played the character Nicole in the previous, long-running series of Clio advertisements.

Those advertisements were set in the tranquil French countryside and used just two words - "Papa? Nicole?" - to showcase father and daughter's separate, secret romantic encounters.

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