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The spectacle was clearly not there this Thursday evening, during the poster for the 5th day of the group stage of the League of Nations between the France team and Israel (0-0). A meeting as sad on the pitch as in the stands, due to the geopolitical context. Note, in this respect, that this match only attracted 16,611 spectators to the Stade de France, the worst attendance in the history of the French team at the Saint-Denis venue…
As a reminder, the previous negative record was 36,842 spectators against New Zealand on June 22, 2003 in the Confederations Cup. Outside of the Covid period, the Blues had not played in front of so few spectators in mainland France since October 10, 2009 (16,000 people in Guingamp against the Faroe Islands 5-0). Morose…
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