France beaten in the final: after the defeat, the Champs Elysees quickly emptied

There won’t be a big party until the end of the night on the most beautiful avenue in the world. Losing on penalties to the Blues in the World Cup final ended too soon. Around 19:00, shortly after the end of the match and when Argentina’s captain Lionel Messi received the trophy, the Champs-Elysées quietly emptied. There were just a few crackers and fireworks to say goodbye to this 2022 World Cup. But the mood is gone.

For more than an hour, with Argentina leading and dominating, the Champs Elysees remained quiet, too quiet. The most beautiful avenue in the world is the meeting point when the Blues win, and definitely when it’s dark, that’s a bad sign.

The party was just waiting to go on

But, as in Doha, everything changed when Kylian Mbappe came out of the box twice. The Champs woke up, the crowd began to sing, taking out blue-white-red flags. The party was just waiting to start. “We were on the metro,” says 17-year-old Sami, who traveled from Val-d’Oise for the occasion. We heard it was a marking so we got out and ran up the Champs Elysées. It’s incredible. We almost missed this atmosphere. »

During the expansion, the crowd continued to invest in the center of the capital. All eyes are on their phones to follow the game. We shout, we encourage. This is the beginning of insanity. Several excited fans took the opportunity to climb the traffic lights, goaded on by the crowd. They cheer on the blues with smoke bombs in their hands. Small crowd movements are also observed on these filled Champs-Elysées in the upper part, but nothing serious. To avoid overcrowding, security forces escorted frustrated fans to the Franklin Roosevelt subway station to avoid crowd movement.