Macron to travel to Qatar for World Cup semis against Morocco

11.12.2022 - 13:39 channelnewsasia.com

PARIS : French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Qatar to attend the World Cup semi-final between France and Morocco on Wednesday, French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera said on Sunday.

France, tournament winners in 2018, will play Morocco for a place in the final after they beat England 2-1 and the North Africans beat Portugal 1-0 in Saturday's earlier quarter-finals."The details of the trip remain to be settled, of course, but he had made this commitment," she said on Franceinfo radio.Macron's office had said last month that he would wait for the semi-finals to go to the World Cup if the team reached that stage.

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PARIS: French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera on Friday accused Argentine players of being “inelegant winners” and “vulgar” for mocking her country’s star Kylian Mbappe after winning the World Cup final.“As much as our French team knew how to lose with panache, so the manner in which this Argentine team acted after this victory was not worthy of the match we saw,” the minister told French radio station RTL.Oudea-Castera singled out goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, who was seen in the victory parade in Buenos Aires holding a baby doll its face covered with a photo of French star Mbappe.Immediately after the match had been heard in the Argentina changing room demanding: “A minute of silence... for Mbappe.”Mbappe scored a hat-trick as France twice fought back to take the game to a shootout and then beat Martinez with the opening kick.“I find it pitiful,” said Oudea-Castera.“It’s just vulgar, inappropriate, really not up to the occasion,” she said“This Emiliano Martinez is not distinguishing himself.