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The FIFA World Cup 2018-winning France football team, players of runners up Croatia and bronze medal winner Belgium have returned home to a heroes' welcome. The crowd went berserk as hundreds of thousands packed the Champs Elysees in Paris for their victory parade ahead of a presidential reception in the evening. France overcame a determined Croatia team to win 4-2 in Sunday's final, with teenager Kylian Mbappe applying the coup de grace and cementing his place as a new global superstar at the age of just 19.
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Smoke in the colours of the national flag is released by the French aerobatic squad as the bus carrying the victorious French World Cup soccer team drives down the famed Champs Elysees avenue. France's president Emmanuel Macron has promised the Legion of Honour for the victors' "exceptional services" to the country.
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France fans during the parade. In Paris, the metro system temporarily renamed six of its stations in honour of the key players, with the Victor Hugo stop — named after the famed 19th-century writer — becoming Victor Hugo Lloris after the team's goalkeeper.
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France's victorious World Cup team descends in a bus upon Paris' packed Champs-Elysees avenue. The players arrived at a raucous welcome at Charles De Gaulle airport northeast of Paris, including a "water salute" by the fire brigade which sprayed arcs of water over the Air France jet as it taxied to the gate.
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There were 292 people arrested nationwide and isolated clashes between police and rowdy crowds in Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Several French supporters were involved in fatal accidents, including a man who threw himself into a shallow canal in the city of Annecy.
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France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris holds the World Cup trophy during an official reception at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris. Millions of fans in France celebrated into the night, honking car horns and flying the tricolour flag while the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe were lit up in the national colours of blue, white and red.
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France's fans wave French national flags, light flares and cheer France's team players as they celebrate on the roof of a bus while parading down the Champs-Elysee avenue after winning the FIFA World Cup final match in Paris.
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The Patrouille de France jets perform as they trail smoke in the colours of the French national flag while flying over the Champs Elysee avenue as supporters welcome players of the French national football team after they won the Fifa World Cup, in Paris.
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French soccer players waves from a bus in a cloud of smoke during a parade on the famed Champs Elysees avenue in Paris. Crowds began converging early Monday on the Champs Elysees, the gathering point for all national celebrations, for a parade by the team atop an electric bus.
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While French citizen was basked in the glory of FIFA World Cup, the Croatia team returned to Zagreb and received a heroic welcome.
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Croatia team bus and fans during the parade
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Belgian soccer team fans wait for the team to appear on the balcony of the city hall at the Brussels' Grand Place, after taking the third place in the World Cup 2018, in Brussels.
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