Paul Rouget, Media365: published on Monday, November 28, 2022 at 10:34 a.m.
While the Blues celebrated their qualification for the round of 16 of the Qatari World Cup by dancing to her title “Freed from Desire”, the Italian singer Gala appreciated.
A new anthem in English for the Blues? 24 years after the conquest of the first World Cup in the history of the French team to the sound of the unforgettable “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, Didier Deschamps’ men celebrated the qualification for the eighth of final of this Qatari World Cup, after their success on Saturday against Denmark (2-1), celebrating in the locker rooms of the 974 stadium in Doha and turning the napkins to the tune of “Freed from Desire” by Gala. And the Italian singer is visibly delighted with this choice of the Habs.
“France has a special place in my heart”
“The players celebrating on my song ‘Freed from Desire'”, she wrote on Twitter, captioning the FFF video showing Hugo Lloris and his teammates singing and dancing to his famous title. “France has a special place in my heart because they have always shown a lot of love for my song and for me as an artist!”, she continues, before mentioning Olivier Giroud and Antoine Griezmann, but also Paul Pogba and Karim Benzema, yet absent in the emirate. But why this Eurodance title, released in 1996 and which experienced a resurgence in popularity at Euro 2016, with the cover “Will Grigg’s on fire, your defense is terrified” in honor of the Northern Irishman Will Grigg, is it sung by the Blues?
“The music came like that in the locker room, I don’t know where it came from. We celebrated qualifying together, we’ll see if it happens again”, explained Raphaël Varane on Sunday at a press conference. Note that the players of the XV of France also like this title a lot, thanks to the Toulonnais Charles Ollivon, who had already introduced it into the Var locker room. The Blues of rugby winners of the last Tournament and who remain on a series of 13 rank victories. And not only thanks to their anthem…
