Attempt to increase player morale. Emmanuel Macron spoke this Sunday night to the players of the French team in the locker room, after their defeat against Argentina in the World Cup final.
“You have made millions of French men and women dream so far. And even today, they have vibrated. And you have made billions of people who watched this game dream. Because you played great football and a great sport”, he launched for the first time President. in a video posted on his Twitter account.
“I wanted to come see you to thank you”
Like last Wednesday, during the semi-final, the Head of State, a great round ball fan, had made the trip to cheer on the Blues. After a harrowing game that ended in penalties, Emmanuel Macron wanted to ensure that the whole country saluted “a great team”.
As soon as the game was over, the president also took the field, coming to console a very dejected Kylian Mbappé.
“In life it’s the same, something is missing, that’s life, that’s sports. You can’t do anything about it, but you had the heart, the hunger, the drive, and the talent to go there. I wanted to come see you to say thank you. You made the French and the French who needed it dream,” Emmanuel Macron said again, in front of obviously disappointed players.
“You have a crazy experience on board”
While the president called before the competition to “not politicize the sport”, in recent days he has multiplied the messages. Criticized for his trip to Qatar, and for having praised the “good” organization of the World Cup by the emirate, whose environmental impact and the thousands of workers who died on construction sites shocked, the president responded concisely ” fully assume their displacement”.
In front of the players and in their locker rooms on Sunday night, he even spun the metaphor between the presidential race and the World Cup.
“There are many (note from the team’s football editor) who are very young, who are going to do much more, more than me as president (…) You have crazy experience on board,” the president said again, launching with a stroke of the pen in a mood while the Constitution limits him to two consecutive terms.
“Tomorrow we return to the attack”
If this World Cup was the last for some footballers, like Olivier Giroud, others should still have the chance to play in 2026 or even 2032 like Kylian Mbappé, Aurélien Tchouaméni or Ibrahima Konate..
“So here it is, tonight is going to be tough but tomorrow we are going to attack again because that’s how we won them. I, in any case, am proud of you. Long live the Republic and long live France! , the president finally concluded, before embracing the Blues coach, Didier Deschamps.
Source: BFM TV
