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Sunday 3 p.m., Jassim Bin-Hamad training center press room.
Raphaël Varane presents himself to the media the day after the victory against Denmark (2-1) and continues the answers.
Until he was interrupted…by the compound's fire alarm going off unexpectedly.
For a few seconds, long enough for everyone to stare at each other, everyone wondered if this was a simple false alarm or a real problem.
"
It's always the same in this case, if it is, there is fire and we sit there quietly
", jokes a colleague, microphone in hand while waiting to ask his question to the vice-captain of the Blues.
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Once the alarm was cut off, Raphaël Varane was able to resume his media exercise.
But before that, he leaned towards the microphone behind his desk to crack a little joke: “
This time, it's not Adil Rami
”.
Successful coup with a collective laugh of the journalists present this Sunday in the press room.
And inevitably an undisguised allusion to the sequence of the French team in Russia during the epic of 2018.
Rami and the fire alarm at the Hôtel des Bleus in 2018
Four years earlier, after qualifying for the quarter-finals of the competition following the success against Argentina, Adil Rami had triggered in the middle of the night, armed with a fire extinguisher to amuse the gallery, the fire alarm on the side of 'Istra, place of residence of the future world champions.
An adventure which had maintained the legend of the Blues and a Didier Deschamps awakened in the middle of the night, but which had not sanctioned the culprits.
For a sequel that we all know.
Hoping that the alarm will bring luck again for the Blues.
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