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Foot: Festive 3rd half at the Élysée for Macron and Variety

2021-10-15T08:33:57.634Z


Thursday in Poissy, Emmanuel Macron put on crampons with the Variétés Club de France to play a charity football match against a ...


Thursday in Poissy, Emmanuel Macron put on crampons with the Variétés Club de France to play a charity football match against a selection of nursing staff from the Poissy / Saint-Germain-en-Laye hospital center.

In front of 2,000 spectators at the Léo-Lagrange stadium, the President of the Republic played 75 minutes and scored a goal from the penalty spot.

His team, made up of many former glories of the round ball (Christian Karembeu, Robert Pirès, Marcel Desailly, Alain Giresse, Dominique Rocheteau…) easily won (6-1).

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After the meeting, all the players in this match, which raised 50,000 euros for the Kabul Medical Institute for Mother and Child, gathered at the Elysee Palace for a dinner.

The evening ended in a festive atmosphere under the air in particular of "I will survive", the hymn of the 1998 world champions played by an orchestra.

The world champions Marcel Desailly, Robert Pirès, Christian Karembeu, Bernard Diomède and the former intendant of the Blues Henri Emile gave the "la", surrounded by the president and Brigitte Macron.

Posted on the Instagram account of the Variétés Club de France and resumed on Twitter, the video footage has been deleted.

Source: lefigaro

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