“The defeat tonight is difficult,” said President Emmanuel Macron of Spain’s 2-0 semifinal win as France celebrated Bastille Day.
PARIS — National days of celebration — think Canada Day or the 4th of July — are supposed to end with fireworks.
This 14th of July, a date on which the French celebrate the storming of the Bastille fortress and prison in 1789 during the French Revolution, ended with a fizzle on a soccer field an ocean away from here west of Dallas, in Arlington, Texas.
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