“When we don’t win, we don’t have the mood, at least they do, the mood to go for a walk on the Champs or elsewhere”. It was a year ago. Noël Le Graët was still president of the French Football Federation and the Blues had just lost in the World Cup final, at the end of a difficult match played once morest Argentina.
The defeat on penalties and the escapades of Argentinian goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez not yet digested, a controversy was already emerging: that of the gathering organized to pay tribute to the career of the France team.
If the story, at the end of a huge mix-up opposing in particular the Minister of Sports to the president of the FFF, ended with a celebration on the Crillon terrace on Place de la Concorde in front of 50,000 people, the sequence might have had a another look. In the event of victory in particular.
An idea from Emmanuel Macron
As revealed The Parisian, which details the little secrets of the final in its columns this Monday, December 18, another ceremony had been imagined by the resident of the Elysée.
In the event of victory, the head of state had a very particular and even more patriotic sequence in mind. To celebrate the coronation of the Blues, his second as President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron suggested that the French team land on the “Charles-de-Gaulle”.
The Blues with the troops off the coast of Egypt
And for good reason. on Monday morning, the day following the lost final, Emmanuel Macron was to go to the aircraft carrier for the traditional Christmas meal with the troops, the aircraft being then off the coast of Egypt. We then imagine the selfies between Kylian Mbappé and French soldiers. But also the controversies which would not have failed to arise following such a meeting.
The presidential idea will never see the light of day.
