Elysee Palace: Team and Gold Trophy

elysee palace: The red carpet welcome for the World Cup winners continued at the Elysee Palace, where President Emmanuel Macron threw an informal garden party that had 1,000 children and 300 athletes from local soccer clubs as guests, according to Vancouver Courier. Many of the invited clubs are based in the poor neighbourhoods French that produced the players who made up France's youthful, diverse World Cup team, including 19-year-old breakout star Kylian Mbappe. The crowd that waited for hours to greet the soccer team, under a hot sun and amid celebratory smoke bombs that choked the air, got its moment hours after the team returned from Russia to hoist the gold trophy on French soil for the second time in 20 years.article continues below Trending Stories The national team's 4-2 win over Croatia on Sunday gave France a new set of heroes, many of whom represent the changing face of a diverse, multicultural country with which not all French citizens have yet reckoned. Members of the club he grew up with in suburban Bondy attended the party. This team is beautiful because it was united. Merci! Macron, the youngest person to become France's president, told the guests. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.