For the third time since its “move” to Saint-Denis, the France team disputes on Saturday a match in its old garden with, at the key, a possible qualification for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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Backed by the ring road, the princes park goes again for a night a “blue house”, like between 1972 and 1997. Saturday, November 13, the France football team can validate, in case of victory against Kazakhstan. , his ticket for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Due to the work of the future Charles-de-Gaulle Express which makes it difficult to serve of Saint-Denis this weekend, the French Football Federation (FFF) opted for a return to Paris. Event. It is only the third time since the “move” of the Blues for the Stade de France, in 1998.
On October 11, 2013, Didier Deschamps players inflict a tennis score at Australia (6-0) in friendly. Asked before the match on his reunion with the enclosure of the e arrondissement, the coach then cooled the atmosphere. “It’s a beautiful stadium, with a beautiful atmosphere. But we can not say that I have my best memories … It’s even the worst of my career.” A Bulgarian ghost crosses the newsroom in the center of Clairefontaine workout.
On November 17, 1993, the evening begins, carefree, at humming America, from Joe Dassin , and ends in stupor after The goal on the Gong of Emil Kostadinov . The Papin-Cantona generation missed its appointment with the United States and their World Cup, the following year. Sound, the public does not even whist this team unable to take a point in two games against Israel, a month earlier (2-3), then facing the Bulgarians (1-2).
“ON is not better in France “
“I have the memory of a cathedral silence, as if no one did what he had just happened”, exhume Philippe Tournon. The Blue Historical Press Officer (from 1983 to 2004, and from 2010 to 2018) experienced happier and noisy evenings in a stadium where he remembers having followed Francis Bouygues “on tablets ten meters from the ground” moment of his reconstruction, in the early 1970s. But not right away. Still journalist at the team, Mr. Tournon evokes matches at less than 10,000 spectators “and again, the Federation invited a lot of school”. The Blues are still in the wilderness and we must have faith to encourage them.
Everything changes from 1976 with the two Michel. Hidalgo, the coach, and Platini, the leadersman. As the Nancéien, Maxime Bossis began his international career at the park, on 27 November 1976, against Czechoslovakia, in a three-quarter empty stage. But “the grand max” causes the history of love “with this victory against Bulgaria (3-1) the following year”, synonymous with qualification for the World Cup in Argentina. That night, it rains in Paris and the defender carries in triumph, with his partners, a Michel Hidalgo wrapped in a blue windbreaker.
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