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World Cup: between drunkenness and disappointment, French supporters went through all the emotions

2022-12-18T21:16:57.191Z


STORY - The penalty shootout got the better of the general enthusiasm. They believed in it until the end. "Come on Blues, it's not over!" , shouts a supporter rue de La Boétie, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, while France has just equalized at 2-2. "Long live France! , exult students from Garches, who run from brasserie to bar to try to see some images of the match. It is the remontada with our values ​​and our colors!” On the Champs-Élysées, Mamadou tries to se


They believed in it until the end.

"Come on Blues, it's not over!"

, shouts a supporter rue de La Boétie, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, while France has just equalized at 2-2.

"Long live France!

, exult students from Garches, who run from brasserie to bar to try to see some images of the match.

It is the remontada with our values ​​and our colors!”

On the Champs-Élysées, Mamadou tries to sell his blue-white-red flags at the metro exit.

One euro, then 50 cents.

"But nobody wants it

," he blurted out, annoyed.

People are waiting for victory.”

At the entrance to Galeries Lafayette, the security guards sigh:

“It's a bit hard not to be able to watch the match.

But we follow anyway: we count the goals with the cries of the supporters and the horns.

But around 6:50 p.m., silence sets in: after a match of anthology, the France team finally lost against Argentina.

This match was undoubtedly one of the most beautiful I have seen in my life, and I watch a lot of them... But maybe all of this makes this final even more cruel

Louis, supporter of the France team

“Messi killed us!”

, growls a Nice supporter, annoyed.

Quentin, disappointed like all the supporters of the Blues, remains a good player despite everything:

"We deserved this World Cup, but it doesn't matter we will come back stronger in 2026 and we will really win."

Still in Nice, avenue Jean-Médecin, tears are streaming down the cheeks of some supporters.

It's not the defeat, but the tear gas used by the police to disperse the crowd.

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After ripping open a container, individuals in tracksuits help themselves to glass bottles that they intend to use against the police "

smoke them!"

On Place Bellecour, in Lyon, the situation is also tense: firing of fireworks, firecrackers in the air, launched by masked demonstrators.

The police respond with tear gas.

At the same time, a few fireworks light up the sky of Nantes.

On the Old Port of Marseille, the clamor rises when Mbappé scores his first penalty.

Supporters gather in front of the windows of the Queen Victoria bar to watch the match, to the songs of

La Marseillaise.

At the striker's second goal, less than two minutes later, the atmosphere ignited with the shooting of fireworks and horns in the streets.

In the third, during extra time, the city of OM even shouted the name of the PSG player.

But the shots on goal got the better of the general enthusiasm.

“They played very well, the France team did not deserve it.

Penalties are always a bit like Russian roulette,”

comments Laurent Bergerot, a 44-year-old engineer.

In Bordeaux, Anthony admits to being

"strongly disgusted"

at the end of the meeting:

"We have a young team which did not have enough experience to exceed 90 minutes",

he admits, French flag on his shoulders and blue-white-red makeup on the cheeks.

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With the family in Saint-Malo, Guillaume had put on the jersey of Griezmann, and his two sons aged 6 and 8, for their first world, had chosen that of Giroud.

The little ones ended up crying in their room, refusing to see the cup handed over.

“I am very disappointed, but happy that the Blues reacted and made us vibrate, in particular Mbappé

, consoles this football fan, supporter of Stade Rennes.

They still managed a good World Cup.

But Messi deserves to win it."

Born in 1990, Louis feels

“privileged to have grown up in a time when the France team has almost always been at the top, with first family memories in 1998 and 2000, then the incredible journeys of 2006, 2016 and 2018. »

.

This evening, he has tears in his eyes, and does not have the strength to go out with his friends:

“Football is a question of heritage for me and I am used to living these big matches with my father, whom I I had a long phone call before the match to ease our respective stresses, and at the end of the 90 minutes

, he says.

But that I don't have the strength to call now - and he obviously doesn't either!

Two small consolations: first we have, with Mbappé - this is no longer a surprise - an absolute phenomenon.

Then, this match was without a doubt one of the most beautiful I've seen in my life, and I watch a lot of them… But maybe all that makes this final even more cruel.

Roll on tomorrow!”

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In Paris, in the streets of the Oberkampf district, Argentinian supporters celebrate their third world title in style.

To evacuate the frustration, Blues supporters set off a few firecrackers in the Place de la Bastille.

On the Champs-Élysées, the usual meeting place for football parties, several thousand people had braved the drizzle.

“We came to the Champs on purpose, since 95, to experience this match

, regrets a student with cheeks reddened by the cold, wrapped in a French flag.

Now we're going to have a drink to forget."

Most stores had lowered the curtain in anticipation of possible incidents.

The police charged in the evening at the Yves Saint Laurent store, causing some crowd movement.

Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, in a light rain, a CRS dares to smile while looking at his laptop:

“I don't give a damn about football

, he explains.

It's just that if they had won, I had until 4 in the morning.

Then I can go home."

A little further on, a building caretaker closes his shutters:

"Whether they've lost or won, we don't want to be disturbed: we're going to bed."

Source: lefigaro

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