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The Stade de France will ring hollow this Thursday, November 14. As part of the fifth day of the Nations League, the venue located in Saint-Denis will host the meeting between Didier Deschamps' French team and Israel. A meeting which takes place in a very tense context, more than a year after the start of the armed conflict in the Middle East, and just a few days after the violent confrontations between Dutch and Israeli supporters in Amsterdam (Netherlands). The Dyonisian stadium will also be closely supervised by the police: 4,000 of them will be deployed in the Paris region on Thursday evening, in addition to 1,600 stewards inside and outside the stadium. vice-world champions.
An old record from 2003 broken
In short, an ambient context that is not really reassuring, without taking into account the late scheduling of the match, the reluctance of certain supporters towards the game of the Tricolores since Euro 2024 in Germany and a poster far from making Football fans dream. With this in mind, the Stade de France is preparing to break a sad record. According to the latest forecasts from the French Football Federation (FFF) reported by Le Parisien this Tuesday, November 12, around 20,000 spectators are expected to attend the match. A year and a half after their last visit to Saint-Denis, the Tricolores will therefore do worse than the France – New Zealand of June 2003 in the Confederations Cup, which attracted 36,842 people. As a reminder, the Stade de France has the capacity to accommodate nearly 80,000 spectators…
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To summarize
The Stade de France will ring hollow this Thursday, November 14. As part of the fifth day of the Nations League, the venue located in Saint-Denis will host the meeting between Didier Deschamps' French team and Israel.
