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Paris – After the coronation, the triumphal return: the Blues celebrated Monday their title of world champion on the Champs-Elysées with hundreds of thousands of people came to cheer them, before being received at the Elysee.
" We are the champions, we are the champions! ": gathered for several hours on " the most beautiful avenue in the world ", a blue-white-red crowd has overthrown with happiness in the afternoon at the sight of the double-decker bus carrying the 23 heroes, arrived a few hours earlier in Roissy, haloed the second world title in the history of the team of France twenty years after that of 98
There were about 300,000, according to a police source, to have mbaded on the Champs-Elysees. Twenty years ago, half a million people came on July 13, 1998 to cheer on their glorious seniors – including coach Didier Deschamps.
Euphoric despite their short night, dressed in two-star T-shirts and the words " world champions ", the players harangued the crowd drowned in the clouds of smoke. And many of them immortalized the scene with their smartphone.
– " I will survive " –
On the sidewalks and windows, blue-white-red came in all forms: flags, jerseys, flower necklaces, hats, makeup on the cheeks or the lips … The sky was also decorated with the three colors at the pbadage of the Patrouille de France.
" It's so much fun, it's a beautiful France we have … Everyone is happy, everyone is cool ", smiles Anna, 16: " father so pondered me with 98, now I can live that too! ".
Players and coaching team France were then received at the Elysee President Emmanuel Macron, in a joyfully relaxed atmosphere.
On the steps of the presidential palace, the tube " I will survive " and the Marseillaise, intoned a capella by the players and the head of state, preceded a triumphal arrival in the gardens of the palace, where were waiting for 3,000 guests, including many young people from football clubs training world champions, such as that of Bondy (Seine-Saint-Denis) where began Kylian Mbappé.
But it is especially Paul Pogba who made the show, by making the crowd sing – " We broke everything " or " N'Golo Kanté ", on the air of " In the Champs-Elysées ".
" Do not change! " urged the head of state to the place of the tricolor team, saying that " this team (was) beautiful because it was united, because she was strong and proud of France ".
In the middle of photos and autographs, Captain Hugo Lloris handed the cup to young people to touch.
– False note –
This day of communion ended on a false note: while thousands of supporters were waiting for the appearance of the Blues at the palace of Crillon in the evening, they saw their hopes showered.
Exasperated by the wait and disappointed, supporters let their anger burst. Among them, some have thrown bottles on the police present, who then evacuated the Place de la Concorde, said an AFP photographer.
" The dislocation of the group France took place at the exit of the Elysee, the players are on vacation ", explained to AFP Philippe Tournon, head of the press of the Blues, without wanting specify where the players had chosen to celebrate their victory with their loved ones.
Like their elders in 1998, players and coaching will be decorated with the Legion of Honor, but it will be given to them in a few months, at a date still undetermined, said Monday the Elysee.
This triumph and these honors should allow Griezmann, Pogba, Mbappé and their comrades to become aware of the feat they have just achieved.
" Honestly, personally, I do not realize yet.The cup weighs a lot ," said Antoine Griezmann during the night. " We enter the history ", however seemed to realize the striker Atlético Madrid, on the roof of the world at 27 years.
" We try to give a good image of France, French players, I hope that many young people will have seen this match and will do the same ," he added.
Kylian Mbappé and his meteoric trajectory are already dreaming.
At 19 and a half, he scored in the World Cup final his fourth goal of the tournament. He became the second youngest player to score in the World Cup final after Pele, who had made the net shake in the 1958 tournament's top match.
" I'm very happy, I posted my collective ambitions at the start of the World Cup, it was to win the World Cup ", rejoiced on TF1 the kid from Bondy:" We are proud to make the French happy ".
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