2023-09-07 21:17:10
Rugby World Cup 2023 in FrancedossierGiven the performances that the French team has been performing for three years, the desire to believe in a victory for the Blues at the World Cup which opens this Friday, September 8 is not a matter of chauvinistic utopia.
A very strong desire to believe it. No need to beat around the bush. As the Rugby World Cup opens this evening in France for seven weeks, the desire to believe in a victory for the French XV has never been such a reasonable dream. From a sporting point of view, displaying this ambition is even logical. It’s been three years now that Fabien Galthié’s team has gone from performance to performance, Grand Slam in 2022 during the Six Nations Tournament, 2nd this year behind Ireland, another of the favorites for the tournament which is starting. Like never before, the idea that the right people were in the right place at the right time took hold. And this, well beyond the 26-year-old prodigy captain, Antoine Dupont. Or the charismatic coach with the intriguing glasses.
The competition takes place “at home” as they say. Popular enthusiasm is already growing in country bars and city pubs. In short, there is no question of chauvinism here: lifting the Webb Ellis trophy for the first time is within reach of the France team. Why not say it, while the disillusionments of 1987, 1999 and 2011 are still in everyone’s minds. Before the shock of this Friday evening at the opening of the competition against New Zealand, Fabien Galthié stopped at nothing to summarize his project: building “a team that loves each other very much and very much desires an objective”. A little love in this world of brutes with biceps as big as thighs: we approve! Beyond the fate of the Blues, France will also be, following the June 2024 Olympic Games, scrutinized over the very organization of the event, particularly in terms of security and transport management. Above all, France, whose mood is gloomy to say the least, will be looked at on its ability to make such a sporting competition a celebration, for everyone, the French supporters as well as the thousands of foreign visitors who will make the shift. We also want to believe in this.
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