Brigitte Macron, the wife of France’s current president, chairs a charity that organized a soccer match on Tuesday with her husband and a host of elite players from the past. Among them were, for example, former French representatives Laurent Blanc, Didier Deschamps or Didier Drogba, Belgian Eden Hazard or German Jens Lehmann, but also MMA wrestler Cyril Gane.
It’s the second time in the last few weeks that the 46-year-old French president has made a public appearance as an athlete, with pictures of him punching a bag hard to reach the public recently. Observers see in this Macron’s intention to present himself as a dynamic personality and to remind that he became the youngest president in the modern history of France.
Others then add that it is part of France’s current stance on the war in Ukraine, when Macron has recently been calling for a stronger approach towards Russia in Europe. In this context, the Independent server also recalls Macron’s promise to swim in the river Seine, in which some swimming competitions are to be held at the upcoming Summer Olympics, but its cleanliness raises great doubts.
After all, the promotion of the Olympic Games, which will begin in Paris on July 26, was the second purpose of the football match. After that, its participants were also invited to the Elysée Palace in order to emphasize the social importance of this global sports holiday at the time of the peak preparations.
Brigitte Macron’s charity later also announced that the soccer match in which her husband scored from a penalty brought in 57,500 euros, roughly 1.46 million crowns.
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