Europe 1 with AFP 10:29 p.m., December 10, 2022

Olivier Giroud, strong on Saturday against England (2-1), put on a decisive new helmet to send his Blues to the semi-finals of the World Cup, a new page in the fairy tale lived by the 36-year-old dean , came back from nowhere to write history.

Olivier Giroud scored the winning goal this Saturday against England in the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup. He pushed the French team to the 2018 title, without scoring, went away of his blue house when Didier Deschamps preferred the competition, but he elbowed his way to win again in the blue jersey, on which he dreams of embroidering a new star.

The 36-year-old striker offered mistreated French people the right to still believe in it.

In the 78th minute, he raised his big carcass on a cross from his friend Antoine Griezmann to punish his bodyguard Harry Maguire, caught in the duel in the air.

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raging head

The angry head of the center-forward of AC Milan is the 14th who ends up in the back of the net in selection.

It brings his total of goals to 53 for the Blues, the fourth of a Qatari World Cup that he embraces with the strength and courage of a last fight.

The tall bearded man with the 118th selections never stops stretching his golden history with the Blues, yet started late at age 25 in November 2011, when he was so far from his friends a year ago.

"Olivier has always fought, he has a strong character, he had a sometimes winding road but he always got out of it. He is good in his sneakers and in addition he transmits that to the whole group", complimented assistant coach Guy Stéphan on Tuesday, who has been seeing him for ten years now.

Four and a half years after the coronation of Moscow, "I still find him with a strong character, still just as mobile on the pitch, perhaps with even more mischief", continued the N.2 of the staff, admiring the mind of his attacker.

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"Mentality of a young kid"

And to think that in September, his participation in the Qatari World Cup was far from certain … For a year, Didier Deschamps had left him aside whenever Karim Benzema was available.

But the AC Milan striker was able to make himself indispensable and win his place, once again.

Benzema's package then opened up a boulevard for him towards the starting "eleven".

"Since I was called back, I had a strong desire to show that I was 200% with the France team. The coach gave me this opportunity and I took it," he said. -he slipped at the start of the tournament.

The one that Benzema had compared to a karting put the rubber in Qatar, with an insolent success which was expressed from the start with a double against Australia (4-1).

His rage to win was a pleasure to see after his liberating goal.

At the final whistle, he breathed a big sigh of relief before going dancing with his teammates.

"Even if he didn't score four years ago, he was always important. He had difficult times and today he is rewarded. He has often been criticized, decried, but he has this ability to have this mentality, to be very strong in his head, he never had anything given", said Deschamps after the match against Poland.

The former Arsenal and Chelsea player has hurt the English very badly and still a lot of good for the French.