Before the quarter-final return of the Ligue des Nations scheduled for Sunday at the Stade de France against Croatia, the Blues would be well inspired to revive the feat achieved by their elders against Ukraine twelve years ago (3-0 victory after losing 2-0 to go to kyiv). This November 19, 2013, Raphaël Varane was one of the tricolor heroes. Today, the 2018 world champion remains convinced that this match was the birth certificate of successes that followed later. A founding match, which had also reconciled the French public with the Blues in its words.
“”There is another moment that I lived, it was the France – Ukraine dam before the 2014 World Cup. That's the match that marked merecalls Varane in the new episode of The Bridge. The atmosphere that there was … We were getting out of 2010, 2012, we were going to go out before we even do 2014? No, we couldn't go out. We lose 2-0 to go to Ukraine. We arrived at the stadium of France at the warm -up, the whole stadium was full, standing, I had never seen that. It was the people who pushed us. The match that changed the relationship between supporters and the French team? It's this match. There, we had to get up, and it was the country that raised us. There was no more neighborhood, social differences, religions … We were all there to win“Explains Varane in the show The Bridge Co-animated by Sébastien Abdelhamid and Aurélien Tchouaméni. Four years earlier, their elders were strike in Knysna. Four years later, they were world champions.
