Emmanuel Macron was present during the draw for the 2023 World Cup. -

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"In 2023, as it is at home, we must bring the Cup home, get by," said Emmanuel Macron to the XV of France on Monday in Paris during the World Cup draw ceremony organized in 2023 at home.

“It's simple, every twelve years, we are in the final.

I did the math: in 2023, it will be twelve years since we reached the final.

Now in 2023, as it is at home, you have to bring it back, get by, ”slipped the head of state.

"The @ France2023 starts now ..."



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"Every 12 years, we are in the final"

"We will all be behind you fully," added Mr. Macron who has "committed" to go to the national rugby center in Marcoussis "early next year" to encourage the Blues who have never been rugby world champions, with three defeats in the final (1987, 1999 and 2011) on their count.

In June 2018, the Head of State told footballers of the France team that “a successful competition is a won competition”.

A few weeks later, they had become world champions in Russia.

"France is a country of love for rugby" and will "offer all the art of living in the French way", added the President of the Republic.

"The Covid-19 crisis is terrible" and in 2023 "we will offer the world everything we want to reopen in the coming weeks, that is to say this French art of living, this the art of being among ourselves, of sharing conviviality, gastronomy, moments of celebration, moments of joy, moments of culture too ”.

"Easy hens do not exist"

Also present in the draw, Bernard Laporte did not show unbridled enthusiasm, he who remains the last coach to have beaten the Blacks in the World Cup: “There are no easy groups.

I find them balanced, with an uncertain outcome.

New Zealand is one of the best nations in the world and this duel promises to be exciting.

I am very excited in any case, explained the president of the FFR ”.

“Today (Monday) is the first day of this World Cup.

The players, with eight wins in ten games, have given pride to this jersey.

In three years, players will have between 40 and 60 selections, and this collective experience should serve them.

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