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Added on the 17/12/2022 23:10:00 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Swedish football fans gather to follow the third place game as their team faces Australia in the Women's World Cup 2023. IMAGES
Argentina is famous for excellent beef, tantalizing tango, and producing some of the most famous football players in history. Lionel Messi, perhaps one of the best footballers of our generation, has attained such a high level of respect across the world that the administration of Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital city, has decided to honor the striker by unveiling a statue which immortalizes the living legend in bronze.
After just narrowly leading the Portuguese national football team out of the group stages of the Euro 2016 tournament in a breathtaking match against Hungary, Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo led his teammates in a training session in Marcoussis, France ahead of their competition quarter final match against Poland. The Portuguese captain was seen laughing and joking while passing the ball with striker Ricardo Quaresma.
French President Emmanuel Macron and his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attend an official lunch and exchange gifts, on the last day of Macron's three-day visit to Brazil. IMAGES
Several dozen gendarmes are stationed near Clairvaux Abbey, in the Aube region of north-eastern France, for the start of the Olympic torch relay test, four months before the Paris 2024 Games. IMAGES
Water levels are rising in Vertou, with Loire-Atlantique one of four departments in western France placed on flood alert following heavy rainfall caused by Storm Louis. IMAGES