The France team faces Argentina's Leo Messi on Sunday in the World Cup final.
The match is played at Lusail Stadium, Doha, at 4 p.m.
And like four years ago in the final against Croatia, the whole world (or almost) will dream of seeing the Blues tripping over the carpet.
Because everyone wants to see Messi win his first World Cup.
Problem, the Blues have a good head of dream breakers.
From our Special Envoy in Doha,
“When they arrive in town, everyone changes sidewalks, they don't look manly but they are scary to see”.
Don't ask us why, but when we thought about the angle of this paper, it was this song by our late Daniel Balavoine, and the imagination it awakens in us, that came directly to mind. .
Yes, that's right, the French team of Didier Deschamps is a bunch of dirty guys who don't necessarily play ball well but who destroy everything in their path without the slightest remorse.
Like hooligans scratching the convertible that a brave 50-year-old took years to pay for as a reward for a life of hard work.
Just like that, for fun.
Because that's what the French are about to do on Sunday in the World Cup final against Argentina.
Ruin the quest of a lifetime, that of Leo Messi to become world champion for the first time in his career, and extinguish without qualms the hopes of an entire people who have lived only by and for this for several weeks .
Just take a look at the videos that have been circulating on social networks since the Albiceleste victory against Croatia to understand the state of dementia that has gripped all of Argentina in recent hours.
They are clearly not ready for what could happen to them on Sunday if the French were to win again.
El cura festejando.
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May the little English supporter, captured by the cameras during the quarter-final against England, with his big crocodile tears, be reassured, in a few hours he will no longer be alone crying.
There are many millions of others who will follow if the Blues complete their evil work, that of winning a second World Cup with the clinical coldness that we know them when the time comes for the high mass of world football, a mixture of West Germany of the 80s and modern Real Madrid in C1.
And like four years ago in the final against Croatia, the Blues and their arrogant people will be alone against the rest of the world.
Well, almost, if we are to believe Walid Regragui, the latest victim of the tricolor zonards, who declared Wednesday evening at a press conference “now we will be behind them”.
“You will have time to win others, you”
For the rest, we have not come across a single foreigner who will not be behind Leo Messi's band.
For Leo Messi.
For freelance journalist Wataru Funaki, Japan did not have to force itself to choose sides.
Paris Saint-Germain number 30 is an absolute star in the land of the rising sun and on Sunday they will be sky blue and white.
"I want to see Messi become world champion with my own eyes," he exclaims, his eyes already shining.
He almost realized his childhood dream eight years ago in the final against Germany but unfortunately it went wrong.
This is his last chance to become world champion like Maradona.
The story couldn't be more beautiful.
Messi can become God.
And then you, you already won the World Cup four years ago, that's fine.
And you will have time to win more with Mbappé.
For Argentinians,
it's their last chance with Messi.
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It's true that, on paper, storytelling makes sense.
Imagine, even the English will put aside their historical dispute about the Falkland Islands for the beautiful eyes of the Pulga.
Charlotte Harpur, of The Athletic.
"Me, my heart leans for France because I have affinities with your country," she told us in perfect French.
But otherwise, everyone in England will be behind Messi given it's his last World Cup.
The English want to believe in this magnificent fairy tale.
Afterwards, I know that if France wins, some will be reassured by saying "well, we may have come out in the quarter-finals but we lost against the winners, that's fine".
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We also asked Belgian comedian Alex Vizorek the question, more on principle because we know his answer in advance, knowing that the poor guy never really recovered from the elimination of the Red Devils in the semi-finals there. four years old in Russia.
"I was born in 81, at a time when, in Belgium, a little out of principle, and because the French were probably more arrogant at that time, we were for France's adversary no matter what. , he says.
You would have played North Korea, we would have done our hair like Kim Jong-un without any problem.
So I was Moroccan on Wednesday, I was English last week and I'll be Argentinian on Sunday, it's obligatory, epidermal.
While all my friends are French, I live in France, I pay my taxes in France… Only if the Germans came back would I defend you,
but on a football field, no, it's not possible (laughs)!
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South America united behind Messi
On the Colombian side, journalist Oscar Castillo Vaquero brandishes “South American solidarity” and explains that “Argentina will represent all the peoples of South America in this World Cup on Sunday.
"Leo Messi must be rewarded for everything he has given to football for over twenty years," he added.
To complete this vox pop, we couldn't help but ask a Brazilian colleague for his opinion.
They, the neighbors and intimate rivals of the Argentines, they will still not bend to the diktat of the
happy ending
all the same!
Hey well if… Well, for a good part at least.
"A lot of people in Brazil are getting fed up because the last time a South American country won the World Cup was in 2002, it's been 20 years," recalls Fernando Valeca.
So, even if it's hard to support Argentina, a victory would mean that South America is still in the game.
If the Blues win, the Europeans will complete 24 years of world domination and that, in Brazil, is hard to pass.
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Not to mention that a French triumph would bring us up to the Seleçao and Italy, the only nations in history to have won two World Cups in a row.
“That also plays a role, he agrees.
Because I can assure you that this performance of 58 and 62 is a national pride for us.
Only us and Italy, 100 years ago, managed to do this in the world.
And I think the Brazilians are afraid of being relegated behind the Blues on this point too.
“It could make a lot of people to console on Sunday around 6 p.m.
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