France to have WC parade, but not on Champs-Elysees

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The French national side will receive a parade when they return home after losing in the World Cup final, but not on the Champs-Elysees, which is where they go when they win a trophy. This decision was taken after the players asked for it themselves.

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French sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera announced that The French national side will receive a parade from their fans this Monday at the Place de la Concorde in Paris.
The side are expected to arrive at the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle at around 18:00 local time, and from there they will go directly to the place of the hommage, the sports minister declared to 'France Inter'. The players "want to thank the fans, it's very important to them", she said.
Oudea-Castera explained that the final details are still being organised, and the place was specifically chosen by the French Football Federation (FFF) after the players "did not want to do a parade on the Champs-Elysees", which is where they usually celebrate sporting victories, such as the World Cup four years ago.
The players were "inconsolable", just like "the image of the immense champion Kylian Mbappe" showed, and they were "justifiably crest-fallen in the dressing room", she indicated.
Despite it, she mentioned that amongst the players, there was an overall "feeling of having given it all" and "resisting", after "starting the game very badly".
"It's really hard to come-back from behind, and they did it twice", she said, before saying that this final "will remain in the history books", with an "immense" Leo Messi.
Oudea-Castera recounted that French President Emmanuel Macron and FFF President Noel Le Graet spoke to manager Didier Deschamps after the game, in what was, according the commentators, an attempt to get him to stay in his role, as his contract ends at the end of the month.
Deschamps, who was world champion in 1998 as player and captain of France, has won the Russia World Cup in 2018 and come runners-up in Qatar as manager.

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