France: After the tragedy is the triumph of the ca

Paris is not only the Eiffel Tower, but also the Arc de Triomphe - a work built by the great Napoleon Bonaparte after the glorious Austerlitz victory, in order to become a symbol of victory in France. However, it only saw Napoleon returning when his body was cool.
France: After the tragedy is the triumph of the ca
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It was here that the Nazis marched in Paris during the French tragedy of World War II, which also saw Charles de Gaulle return the French. After the tragedy is triumphal, it is France, is the French football.

"Battle of Battiston" is the phrase used to refer to the classic epic battle between France and West Germany in the 1982 World Cup semi-finals. In that match, Michael Platini and his teammates scored twice in the 92nd minute. and 98 to raise the score to 3-1 at extra time. But West Germany did not give up, with their infamous backwater swing, they equalized 3-3 at the 102nd and 108th. They then beat France in the penalty shootout with a 5- 4.

The script was, however, remembered only by the collision of goalkeeper Harald Schumacher (Germany) with defender Patrick Battiston (the reason for calling this "Battle of Battiston"), causing the Frenchman landing on the ground in parallel with the ground, breaking three teeth, unconscious, and described by Platini as "I thought he was dead." Schumacher stood up to pull up the gum, throwing the ball up, not even a yellow card. French after the battle for "meat" Schumacher, the head of the two countries must meet urgent to regulate the tension.

The battle that took place on the land of Seville that day made the French anger, they resolved to reclaim what lost in EURO1984 at home. Then, the "virtual squares" in the midfield, nine goals from Platini (still the record of the EURO), has brought the French football to the title of the first big champions. After the tragedy in Spain, France celebrated on the Arc de Triomphe.


"What kind of boy is that?" Eric Cantona squinted at Aime Jacquet and asked the question. It was a pre-EURO 1996, when Jacquet came to Cantona to tell "King Eric" about a new France without him. Two years later, Cantona and French football were traumatized when the team failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup. Coach Aime Jacquet replaced him and he rejuvenated the squad, eliminating big stars like Eric Cantona and David. Ginola. "The boy" that Cantona asked Jacquet was Zinedine Zidane. That year, France reached the semi-finals of Euro 1996. And two years later, they became the champion of the 1998 World Cup at home. From the ashes of 1994 to Zidane's header in 1998, the Arc de Triomphe did not sleep.

But the Arc de Triomphe also had to look at Paris in July 2016, when Portugal's Eder shot wide and beat France in the final. French football lost in the Paris year suffered three major terrorist attacks. They lost in spirit, lost the sport, and darkness covered the Arc de Triomphe. Two years later, leaving the Triumphal Archangel to Russia, the troop entered the World Cup finals. Zidane smiles, 74 years after General De Gaulle's statement: "Paris was insulted, but Paris was liberated ... the liberation of eternal France." Now, the French dream of triumph.