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The value of a feat is measured by its unprecedented but also improbable character. The France team ticks both boxes and is preparing to live this Sunday against Argentina (4 p.m.) a dizzying part of the history of football, without equal. The last heroes are the Brazilians, with a string of two victories in four years, after their first coronation in 1958. But comparing these two footballs separated by sixty-four years – with, on the one hand, a World Cup without Africa nor Asia, on the other a globalized sport – has no meaning or credit. It’s another life now, a new world, which we all dreamed of and which they created with their feet, their heads in the clouds.