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Euro 2021: the Blues, favorites of the heart

2021-06-09T23:17:28.189Z


The France team leaves as a huge favorite for the Euro, which begins this Friday with Italy-Turkey. It is the result of the skills of his s


The Blues must succeed where most comedians have failed: this is the moment to know how to imitate Didier Deschamps. World champion in 1998, the captain of the France team took Roger Lemerre's troop to the roof of Europe two years later, at a time when he said to himself that it was more difficult to win a Euro than a World. Twenty-one years later, it is said less because the greatest player in the world, Messi, plays with Argentina but it is still said and the feat of the Blues promises to be immense. Staying in the air, at such a high altitude, when oxygen is lacking and breath is cut off, corresponds to the knowledge of this French team, to the springs that we lend it or that we dream of owning. She has known, it is true, to hang on, at least in our hearts for five years.

At the Euro, in France in 2016, fervor led her to the final (lost 1-0 to Portugal) before ecstasy, the pantheonization of the World Cup two years later.

It is this momentum that carries the Blues today, as if they were still advancing on the flying carpet of this Russian emotion.

As the coach says: they are "no less strong" in 2021. They have grown and well, indeed.

Deschamps keeps his faith intact in his function, motivated as at the first hour, his ideas more and more clear.

His men who are to have lunch this Thursday at noon at Clairefontaine with Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron, as well as Gianni Infantino, the president of Fifa, return it to him, adapting to all styles and all new.

A club spirit

There is one this year, that we did not expect and that we would never have seen again if the Euro had held as planned in 2020: Karim Benzema, undoubtedly the only benefit of the pandemic . But it was worth the wait. The Tricolores recover the striker who passes cream, puts goals, defends and makes the others better, which can not once again make them weaker. And if he does not crash during the Euro, the Blues have become world champions without a goal from their center forward, Olivier Giroud.

It is that history is played elsewhere, in the way of being a team, the definition of these Blues who behave as such, a team shaped by Deschamps in a club spirit that continues.

Here is the setting, in which some stars take the leading roles, from Antoine Griezmann, always so subtle in the game, to Kylian Mbappé, even more talented three years later.

The Bondynois will never stop improving, it is the logic of an attacker who has always erased what he misses, to keep and embellish only what he succeeds.

One day he will end up performing well even if everyone, reading his interviews, has observed that it was already useful for him to think.

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We cite the offensive gems here because it is always this gesture that counts in football, a sport where the most difficult is to score, not to defend.

But in this area too, they will challenge their 31 competitors with strengths that they do not have.

Hugo Lloris remains one of the best European goalkeepers and with N'Golo Kanté, the idea that he is asserting himself as the best midfielder in the world is far from foolish.

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So football, it's not words that line up, nor stars in a row of onions. But it's better like that. The Euro will start on the 15th for France in Munich against Germany (one of the other serious contenders with Portugal, England and Belgium) and there is nothing more beautiful than the Deschamps - Lloris combo - Kanté - Mbappé - Benzema and others. It will now trace its path on European lawns. This is the best way to imitate.

Source: leparis

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