World Cup: Putin thanked France and Argentina for “brilliant game”

As the Blues made their way to Paris and the Place de la Concorde, where thousands of French fans await, Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked the 2022 FIFA World Cup finalists on Monday evening. France and Argentina offered a “brilliant game”. “, according to the head of the Russian state, who wanted to welcome the “deserved” victory of the wards of Lionel Scaloni.

“You have to thank both teams for this brilliant game. They staged a real feast for the fans (…), they fought with dignity until the last second,” Vladimir Putin said during a press conference in Minsk, adding that he followed online the second half of the match won by the Argentinean selection. .

In 2018 Russia hosted the FIFA World Cup. The French national team won the final of the competition against Croatia in front of Vladimir Putin, who came to greet the players in the dressing room after the match, along with Emmanuel Macron and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, then President of Croatia.

Due to the conflict in Ukraine, the Russian national football team has been excluded from international competitions. She has been noticeably squeezed out of qualification for the next Euro, and therefore cannot hope to participate in the competition, which will be held in 2024 in Germany.