2024-09-07 23:40:36
We will have to review the schedules of the players on the French blind football team. “At the beginning of the competition, we said to ourselves: Damn, I forgot to post a date for Monday (September 9) », laughed Gaël Rivière, the new Paralympic champion in the discipline. “We live so much in the tourist world that we don’t think about that, but now we have to wait two or three weeks! “.
The life of these players has just been changed by their victory in the final of the blind football competition of these Paris Paralympic Games. “It’s a crazy week,” jubilant Martin Baron, scorer during today’s penalty shootout. The citizens carried us from the first to the second of every match, until we achieved this goal that we had in mind. It is a great source of pride to have managed to do this. »
By defeating Argentina (1-1; 3-2), the reigning world champion and the winner himself in the final round of the Brazilians, five-time Paralympic champions, the Blues made history. “Someone would have wanted to write this scenario, it could not have been done better,” said Gaël Rivière, a lawyer at the business center in addition to his two daily training sessions.
“We are happy to beat the Argentinians at home”
“We won against Argentina on penalties, we won by conceding one more penalty,” added the Frenchman. In the world of recent football, I think we can’t do better. ” The blind soccer player actually has a little taste of revenge in the back of their mind. “We are sad that they beat France in 2022, and we are happy to beat them at home,” laughs Rivière, making sure that the competition “stays in football. I hope that French football and the fans will say that it is organized the download is direct.
“It’s really the kind of match we want to play when we go to training every evening, it’s to experience moments like that,” Relishes Martin Baron. It is a success. » To achieve this, they were able to count on almost 12,000 spectators, who gathered at the foot of the Eiffel Tower but always respected the specifics of this sport, as from the beginning of the competition.
“Everything comes down to details, and everyone is very detailed this week,” assured the 37-year-old striker. It really moved us. Something we don’t measure, we don’t know, we eat on it. “And in addition to the hero Frédéric Villeroux, the protagonist during the match and the author of the last shot on goal of the day, there is also a great keeper, the savior of the Blues, at the origin of this parade which directed the last Argentinian shot . . .
“It’s amazing, the best event I’ve experienced on the pitch,” said Alessandro Bartolomucci, the team’s only spotter on the pitch. It is more than a dream come true. » His replacement, Benoît Chevreau from Montlehu, although he did not play, is still on cloud nine. “This title will be written forever, for 100 years.”
So before they return to their daily lives as professional athletes, and even if they hope to see their position develop, the Blues hurry to return to Club France and to celebrate once again with all the French people. “It is the magic of sport, the magic of football,” concluded Gaël Rivière. Football is something special and when fate is on your side… Tonight, there are 1,000 opportunities for him to go the other way, but no, it’s for us. »
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