FIFA World Cup 2022: 'Argentina' Station Of Paris Metro Renamed 'France' Ahead Of Final Clash

FIFA World Cup 2022: The "Argentine" underground station was temporarily renamed "France" by the Paris Metro, who covered up the name with banners reading "Allez les Bleus" (Go the Blues).

France metro station Argentine has been renamed for the day as France.

Source : Twitter/@AgnesCPoirier

Ahead of the final clash between France and Argentina in FIFA World Cup 2022 taking place tonight at the Lusail Iconic Stadium in Qatar on Sunday, the name of the "Argentine" station on the capital's metro was hidden, reported Reuters.

The Paris métro station « Argentine » has been renamed for the day… (via @hortense_crepin) #FRAARG pic.twitter.com/xKGEHQpwux

— Agnes C. Poirier (@AgnesCPoirier) December 18, 2022

"I'm sure that France is going to win, it's a close-knit team with a young spirit and they have the potential to win," French citizen Xavier Grand-Jacquot was quoted as saying by Reuters in a wintry Paris. "It's a spectacular team and they're going to go all the way."

The "Argentine" underground station was temporarily renamed "France" by the Paris Metro, who covered up the name with banners reading "Allez les Bleus" (Go the Blues).

The weekend newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche exhorted the French, who would become the first nation since Brazil in 1962 to win consecutive championships, to "For History."

The Interior Ministry said 14,000 police were sent across France with 2,750 in Paris alone to hold festivities back from gaining out of influence.

As a precaution, stores along the elegant Champs Elysees, which are likely to be the center of a celebration in the event of victory, shuttered their windows.

"Let's do it again?" After France beat Morocco in the semi-finals, President Emmanuel Macron, who was in Doha for the final, tweeted a video of the celebrations in the locker room afterward.

In the 1978 FIFA World Cup, Argentina and France were in the same group and in their match back then, Argentina defeated France 2-1. Both teams also locked horns in the previous edition of FIFA World Cup in Russia, in 2018, which France won 4-3.