For the first time since Brazil in 1958 and 1962, a nation could have won two World Cups in a row. A legendary performance, but passed under the nose of the French team in 2022. Four years after the triumph in Loujniki (Russia) against Croatia of Luka Modric (4-2), the Blues had lost at the end of a terrible session of penalties against Argentina (3-3, 4-2 TAB), then world champion for the third time. In the new episode of The Bridge Co-animated by Sébastien Abdelhamid and Aurélien Tchouameni, who will be released this Tuesday at 8 p.m. on YouTube, Raphaël Varane told the behind the scenes of the final in Qatar. That evening, something unusual happened according to the former Madrid, who had known the coronation in Russia four years earlier. For him, the approach of the two finals was not at all the same.
“”Me, what I felt was that we played a final … but that it was not the last match of your life. At the time, you must be transcended, you play a World Cup final … We played with the pressure of the event, but not transcended as in 2018recalls the former French international. In 2018, in the approach of the match, you felt … We all talked before the meeting, we said to ourselves “This is the match of our life, there are no other options”. We didn't think about “if you ever lose”. No ! There were no other paths, it was “we win and that's it”. If I thought about it after the final? Yeah, I said to myself “Why didn't we have this thing more?”. The scenario is crazy, we come back, we had ups and downs. At the emotional level, it takes time to fall back and after when you analyze the match with hindsight, you say to yourself “yeah, it is true that the approach of the final was not the same (in 2018). ” There are even more reasons to feed regrets.
