Le pouvoir du foot (Soccer Power)

Duolingo French Podcast

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4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Ever since France won the World Cup in 1998, Marine Rome yearned to play soccer, but felt excluded from the field. When she finally found her dream team in Paris, they decided to take a stand for inclusion at the 2019 World Cup.

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0:00.0	In 1998, the World Cup final featured the French soccer team, affectionately known as
0:06.1	Les Bleus, facing off against the World Champions.
0:09.4	Brazil, Marine Romme was 11 years old.
0:15.4	But she remembers it as if it were yesterday.
0:17.8	I was in the room with my family.
0:21.8	I was in the room with my parents, friends of my parents, neighbors.
0:29.3	Normally, they're not very women of soccer.
0:32.2	But everyone loves it.
0:37.1	The French team boasts that a diverse roster of players.
0:40.2	In 1998, 11 men from different ethnic backgrounds and religions united in one common goal,
0:46.0	winning the World Cup.
0:47.9	18 minutes before half time, the mid-tenth, mid-fielder Emmanuel Petit kicked a corner shot.
0:53.9	Zinedine Zidane, French's playmaker, jumped to hit the ball with his head.
1:04.2	Zidane had scored the first goal.
1:06.6	He had marked a goal.
1:10.3	I remember the first goal of Zidane.
1:13.1	He marked it with his head.
1:15.0	It was incredible.
1:17.1	Just before the night, he marked a second goal.
1:22.4	I cried and jumped all over the room.
1:27.2	After the victory, the players became heroes.
1:31.4	Everything the country was with you.
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