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Belgium had never been to a final.īefore the match, an embrace between Didier Deschamps, French coach, and Thierry Henry, Belgium assistant, comrades from 1998. Jacques Brel from Brussels wrote songs from his Flemish background ("Les Flamandes," "Marieke") - but when his songs were adapted into the immortal English cabaret version, the title was, mais oui, "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Living in Paris."įrance had been to two finals, splitting them. Georges Simenon from Liege wrote endlessly about a police inspector - in Paris, where he lived for many years. We giggled to ourselves because we were in Europe in a way we had come home.Īs the teams entered the field, I began thinking in duplicates. The squawking we heard in the courtyard soon turned into poulet à la cannelle – chicken with cinnamon. My wife and I started in Brussels, picked up our car, drove south and west.Īt lunch time, we stopped in to a country restaurant. Awaiting kickoff, I thought about our first trip to Europe in 1966.
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