that one song about the french national team fcking SLAPS bro how did i forget about this
*does a weird little shuffle to the kimpembe kimpembe kimpembe bit*
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So all this football happening, I just have to look back to 2018. Let me tell you a story.
I was still a kid back then. And I was more passionate about football that I am now. The world cup of 2018 was pure magic.
I come from Croatia. It's not a big country and it's not I don't know how famous, so when Croatia got into finale of world cup, which has never happened before, we were unstoppable. We were infinity.
I was screaming and I was crying alongside my grandma, because we had our colors for the whole world to see.
We didn't win. We ended up second in the world. I don't even know what words I want to use to describe how we were feeling.
Few days later, players came back. They landed in 3.30 pm, and it was expected for them to come to the main square in about 4.30/5.00.
My family and I were part of the people waiting on the square. There you have one of the biggest stores in our whole country, and by 2.00 pm, all the drinks were gone. Shelfs were empty, and it was summer, so only people in the store were the ones who were hot and wanted to cool down for a bit.
I don't think I have ever experienced such a vibe. We had about 150 thousand people just on the square. We were all singing and dancing and celebrating until we waited for players to arrive. It was an ocean of red and white. We were one piece, all there to be proud of our country.
In the end players arrived in 8.30 pm. They couldn't even drive as they planned to because roads were filled with people with their numbers on their back. They were heroes.
And when they finally came to the square, god was it something. We had fireworks and players were singing and I remember sitting on my father's shoulders, crying and singing and laughing and feeling thousand things at once. There is something that is often on my mind these days. It's one of the lines from the song and it goes "Ovdje nitko nije normalan, nije normalan" in translation "No one here is normal, is normal".
At the end, it was almost half million people. All singing as one. I remember watching Šime Vrsaljko on the stage and he had a cap on his head, and now looking back I think he had a few to drink, which to be honest, he had every right to.
It was beautiful. We had a bigger celebration than France, who was the world champion. We were infinity.
Small country, on the top of the world.
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Every time I see Dest’s blonde head I think I’m seeing someone bald and then I panic and think its Bradley.
I am haunted by the ghosts of USMNT past.
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remembering how in the 2018 wc we won the fifa fan award, going to the wc after 36 years, more than 50k fans flew across the world, the other teams players stated they had never heard fans sing an anthem like that, hearing the anthem for the first time in the world cup in my life. yeah good times
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