Do not ask Abdelatif Benazzi to choose between his two homelands before the shock of this Wednesday evening.
"
It's as if you were asking me to choose between my mother and my father
," laughed the former captain of the French rugby team on the train to Paris before taking the plane to Doha.
At the invitation of the Élysée, he is part of the French delegation accompanying Emmanuel Macron in Qatar.
“
The heart will beat on both sides.
I will have two hearts.
It's a symbolic semi-final for me.
I will be a winner no matter what
,” he slips.
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The result ultimately matters little for this binational assumed since the start of the World Cup, at the head of an association (Noor) facilitating the education of disadvantaged children in Morocco.
“
I have a unique richness with these two cultures and I could not live without one of them.
Saturday evening, I went out to Agen and saw these French and Moroccan flags outside.
It was beautiful.
I watched all the same that there is no little con...
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