Mathieu Warnier, Media365: published on Friday September 6, 2024 at 8:30 p.m.
As the French blind football team faces Argentina this Saturday in the final of the Paralympic tournament, Didier Deschamps and the Blues wanted to encourage them with a video message.
It’s the sacred union behind the Blues of blind football. Victorious at the end of the suspense of Colombia during the semi-finals, the teammates of Frédéric Villeroux and Hakim Arezki have a date with Argentina this Saturday at the Stade Tour Eiffel for their second final of the Paralympic Games, after the one lost in London in 2012 against Brazil. An Albiceleste who achieved a real feat by inflicting on the Auriverde their very first defeat in the discipline, which appeared in Athens in 2004. While the stadium promises to be packed to cheer on Toussaint Akpweh’s players, the latter received this Friday a message of encouragement that should warm their hearts. Through a video published on the account Twitter official of the French team a few hours before their entry into the Nations League against Italy on the pitch at the Stade de France, Didier Deschamps and his players wanted to address their counterparts in blind football.
Deschamps: “All in with you”
“Hi guys, here we are together for the match that awaits us this (Friday) evening, but we are with you wholeheartedly for this final on Saturday evening, wishing you the best of success and fully behind you,” declared the coach of the French team, surrounded by his entire team. It must be said that the Blues of blind football have the opportunity to give Argentina a taste of their own medicine after the defeat of Kylian Mbappé’s teammates against the Albiceleste in the final of the last World Cup. A video message that complements the comments made by Didier Deschamps at the press conference on the eve of the match, this Thursday at the Parc des Princes. “There is a craze, they are there, with the possibility of having a medal, of course we are fully behind them,” said the boss of the Blues in front of the journalists. There is no doubt that the Tricolores will be behind the French blind football team, either on site or in front of their screens.
