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PARIS (AP) – The members of the winning team of the FIFA World Cup have returned from Russia in triumphal arch announcing the arrival of their plane and the arrival of the carpet red Monday, before the formal tribute that awaited them in Paris.
Goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, waving the gold trophy of the prominent football tournament, and coach Didier Deschamps led the airline 's team. Air France on the tarmac at Charles de Gaulle airport. Airport staff and French Sports Minister Laura Flessel, a former fencing champion, were the first to say "thank you" on behalf of a grateful nation that was in dire need of a boost.
"Eternal Happiness" read the title of Monday in the French sports daily L'Equipe, summarizing the state of mind of many who hope that the euphoria will last for months , even years.
The team should make a victory round on the big Champs-Elysees, the big avenue of Paris where hundreds of thousands of people crowded after France's 4-2 victory Sunday against Croatia for capture the trophy.
For a third consecutive day, the avenue was turned into a boulevard of pride and happiness after a parade of French military strength Saturday which, in hindsight, was a glimpse of the exaltation of the victory of the World Cup in France.
The appearance of the team on the Champs-Elysées will be followed by a reception at the presidential palace. Hundreds of guests, including people from football clubs connected to French players, were invited. A club in the poor suburbs where 19-year-old star Kylian Mbappe grew up is among them.
France has been running out of reasons to feel proud, and it is now the moment.
Several Paris subway stations were temporarily adjusting their names to honor the team and its members, tweeted the transport authority. The Champs-Elysées Clemenceau became the Clemenceau Deschamps-Elysees in honor of the coach of the national team Didier Deschamps.
The Etoile station is, for the moment, "We have 2 Stars" (We have 2 stars), to mark the second victory of France in World Cup football. Victor Hugo's station is now Victor Hugo Lloris, after the French goalkeeper and the captain of the team.
Celebrations were spread across the nation, and among French players still stunned themselves.
"We are tied for life now with this Cup," defender Raphael Varane told BFM-TV on Monday before leaving Moscow.
French President Emmanuel Macron exulted on the field in Moscow and in the locker room, hugging the players while they received their medals while the sky poured rain. Macron clearly hoped that the glow of the World Cup would detonate him, elevating him to the eyes of a nation where his economic reforms sparked fierce protests.
It is the players, however, who captured the French imagination. The mostly young and diverse team represents a generation with which the traditionalists have not yet understood.
Flessel, the sports minister, told Europe-1 radio that the victory of the World Cup allowed young people in France – like those in poor suburbs where many players grew up – "to dare believe in their dreams ".
The joy of victory brightened Monday morning's trip to Paris, where young people in cars were singing and shouting.
In the Belleville district of Paris, Vincent Simon said: "Both teams deserve to win, France has won, and it's good for the country, it will be good for a few months."
The victory came at a time when many French people needed good news.
"This represents huge things," said Goffrey Hamsik, wearing a hat looking like a rooster – the French national symbol – and a shirt with the number 10 Mbappe.
"We have had a lot of problems in France in recent years," he said during Sunday's festivities, recalling the deadly terrorist attacks. "It's good for morale … Here we are all united, we mix, there is no religion, there is nothing, and it is which is good. "
However, celebrations in France usually result in a wave of violence on the part of troublemakers, and Sunday is no exception.
Broken windows, looting and other destruction lined up on a section of the Champs-Elysées, the postgame site for party-goers. Riot police used water cannons and tear gas to stop the violence.
French media reports that the authorities arrested 90 people for interrogation in the Paris region and some 290 throughout France.
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