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1:53 p.m. : The big question on the side of the Blues concerns the composition of the team. Since a virus disrupted the workforce, it is unclear who of Raphaël Varane, Dayot Upamecano and Ibrahima Konaté (all affected) will form the central defense of the Blues. And Olivier Giroud could give way to Marcus Thuram to strengthen the defense of the left lane against Lionel Messi.
1:41 p.m. : A procession of blue supporters takes the road to the stadium for the final #ArgentinaVsFrance #QatarWorldCup2022 https://t.co/lJLwNcsWwN
1:40 p.m. : Direction Doha, where the first supporters of the Blues are on their way to the stadium to watch the final.
1:32 p.m. : ?⚽️ #Qatar2022: relive the journey of the Blues, from their first match to victory against Morocco in the semi-finals You were able to experience the competition on franceinfo. A few hours from #ARGFRA, the best is to be heard here ?➡️ More info: https://t.co/A6K9eqgaKK https://t.co/V3LmD05d5D
1:32 p.m. : Relive the journey of the Blues, from their first match to victory against Morocco in the semi-finals, with this little audio best-of from our comrades from Radio France.
1:26 p.m. : Note that this photo tells us that the players of the France team will logically evolve with their blue jersey this evening. This was already the case in the round of 16 of the 2018 World Cup.
1:23 p.m. : Locker room ready to welcome the Blues for the ?????? ?????? ?#ARGFRA | #ProudoftheBlue https://t.co/C2sltEWQMY
1:23 p.m. : Well-aligned jerseys and cleats: inside the Lusail stadium, everything is ready in the locker room to welcome the Blues. We hope to see images of joy there in a little less than five hours!
1:13 p.m. : If France has achieved an exceptional course during this World Cup, it owes it in large part to Antoine Griezmann. While his place, until then irremovable, began to be threatened by the rise of Christopher Nkunku, the Mâconnais has been walking on water since the competition. Andréa La Perna devotes an article to him.
1:02 p.m. : The superb career of the French team in the World Cup ensures a jackpot for the FFF, which will receive at least 28 million euros from Fifa at the end of the competition in Qatar. In case of victory against Argentina, the federation will even leave with 40 million euros. Amateur football hopes to get its share, explains in an article our journalist Clément Parrot.
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12:44 p.m. : In just over 3 hours, France will face Argentina in the World Cup final. Internationally, all eyes will be on Lionel Messi, who may play his last match tonight in the Albiceleste jersey. With, perhaps at the end, the only title missing from his immense career, writes our journalist Julien Lamotte.
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Here is the update on the news at noon:
Who of the Blues or the Albiceleste will win a third star? The World Cup in Qatar, atypical and decried, ends at 4 p.m. with the match between Argentina and France. We give you the keys to this final in an article.
• Parliament definitively adopted the 2023 draft budget of the State yesterday, after the rejection of a final motion of censure from the left in the National Assembly, the end of an autumn punctuated by ten recourse to arms Constitution of 49.3.
• Measures taken by the European Parliament against Qatar, whose access to the assembly has been withdrawn in connection with an alleged corruption case, will have a “negative impact” on relations with the emirate Gulf and global gas supply, warns Doha this morning.
• After months of legal saga, the Franco-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri, expelled Sunday by Israel after several months of detention, arrived at the end of the morning in France, where the authorities “condemned” an expulsion “contrary to the law” .
11:39 : How would you feel if you had a World Cup final to play in just under five hours? Franceinfo football consultant and world champion in 1998, Bixente Lizarazu remembers a “painful day” where we feel “like a lion in a cage” before kick-off.
10:53 : “We’ve never had TV. We’ve never seen the goals in almost 25 years. I can’t remember the score. I’d be hard pressed to tell you who was playing. Zidane maybe?”
10:52 : “In July 1998, I was visiting my grandmother in Bar-Le-Duc. She is 98 years old and it is one of the first football matches she is about to watch. She asks me to go up to the attic to take “the flag of liberation” ! I go. It is full of dust, it sticks, it is brown in places. It is two meters by three, it must not have seen the light of day since 1944, but it will remain two days at its window. “
10:52 : “For the first time, I feel French more than ever, we, the French of North African origin, we are no longer these ‘guests’. I have the feeling of belonging to the same nation as the others, that we are all housed in the same boat, regardless of background or origins.
10:51 a.m. : Much more than a star embroidered on a jersey. On the occasion of this World Cup final between France and Argentina, we asked you what it meant to you to become world champion. You have been several hundred to answer us. Here are your testimonials.
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10:32 : Should we expect a peak in the birth of little Kylian, Antoine or Mattéo in the event of a victory for the Blues in the final tonight? Since 1998, a whole host of externalities have been attributed to obtaining a World Cup, ranging from the birth rate to the popularity of political leaders, via economic growth. What is it really ? Our journalists Quang Pham and Thibaud Le Meneec have looked into the subject.
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10:12 a.m. : We put that back ? https://t.co/MDKOvx6l9x
10:12 a.m. : Present in Doha for the final, Emmanuel Macron published a clip this morning to encourage the Blues.
09:55 : [Coupe du monde] #RATP supports @equipedefrance! On the occasion of the #CM2022 final between Argentina and France, the Argentinian station was renamed this night “Argentina – France, Aller les Bleus”. #EnRoutePourlaVictoire #ProudToBeBleus ?? #ARGFRA https://t.co/6rogIaArG3
09:54 : As a global sporting event, the RATP this morning renamed the Paris metro station Argentina, located a stone’s throw from the Arc de Triomphe.
09:31 : The poster for the World Cup final obviously made the front page of all the daily newspapers published this morning, like The Team and the Sunday newspaper.
09:26 : If France won this afternoon, they would become the first selection to lift the most prestigious trophy for the second consecutive time since Pelé’s Brazil at the turn of the 1960s. Denis Menetrier tells you in an article why the final Argentina-France is historic in more ways than one.
09:09 : We start without further delay with a first point on the news:
Who of the Blues or the Albiceleste will win a third star? The World Cup in Qatar, atypical and decried, ends at 4 p.m. with the match between Argentina and France. From the first match to the final, we invite you to relive the epic of Didier Deschamps’ men during this competition.
• Parliament definitively adopted the 2023 draft budget of the State yesterday, after the rejection of a final motion of censure from the left in the National Assembly, the end of an autumn punctuated by ten recourse to arms Constitution of 49.3.
• End of free “rights to pollute” for industrialists, taxation of emissions linked to heating and cars, social fund for the transition… The EU reached an agreement this morning on a vast reform of its carbon market, the centerpiece of the European climate plan.
• Miss Guadeloupe, Indira Ampiot, is elected Miss France 2023. She succeeds the Ile-de-France Diane Leyre.