{"id":1268117,"date":"2022-12-20T19:10:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/20\/france-players-receive-warm-claps-on-homecoming-despite-final-loss-video\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T19:10:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:10:14","slug":"france-players-receive-warm-claps-on-homecoming-despite-final-loss-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/20\/france-players-receive-warm-claps-on-homecoming-despite-final-loss-video\/","title":{"rendered":"France players receive warm claps on homecoming despite final loss [Video]\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"477\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image_2022-12-20_124848394-696x477.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"image_2022-12-20_124848394\"\/><\/div>\n<p>The 2022 World Cup runners-up, France, received a warm welcome back home despite losing Sunday\u2019s final to Argentina.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were fears the players would be abused because Aurelien Tchouameni and Kingsley Coman missed their efforts from the spot in the penalty shootout. Though some players reportedly suffered racist abuse on social media, it wasn\u2019t the same when they touched down in Paris.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many fans gave the team thunderous claps as they waved back from the top of a building.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>France looked to be out of the final at Khalifa International Stadium after 36 minutes into the game when Argentina were 2-0 up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mbappe scored twice in two minutes in the final 10 minutes to force the game into extra-time. Messi scored again to make it 3-2 for La Albiceleste before Mbappe struck the leveler two minutes to the end of extra-time for the game to be decided on penalties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Argentina eventually triumphed\u00a0\u00a04-2 on penalties to win their first world title in 36 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The great fight from Les Bleus seems to have won the hearts of French fans, who gave the players a rousing welcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"rP8yQQP3eHs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kasiebo Tau At 9:55AM on Adom TV (20-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rP8yQQP3eHs?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 World Cup runners-up, France, received a warm welcome back home despite losing Sunday\u2019s final to Argentina.\u00a0 There were fears the players would be abused because Aurelien Tchouameni and Kingsley Coman missed their efforts from the spot in the penalty shootout. Though some players reportedly suffered racist abuse on social media, it wasn\u2019t the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10755,1450,5656,3697,1300,190,4205,480,3344],"class_list":["post-1268117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-claps","tag-final","tag-france","tag-homecoming","tag-loss","tag-players","tag-receive","tag-video","tag-warm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}