EAST RUTHERFORD, N,J. (AP) — France's last World Cup match against Senegal set off dancing in the streets of Dakar.
Les Bleus were the defending champions when the Lions of Teranga's 1-0 upset win in the 2002 opener caused Senegal President Abdoulaye Wade to declare a national holiday.
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France's N'Golo Kante, right, challenges for the ball with Ivory Coast's Bazoumana Toure during the international friendly soccer match between France and Ivory Coast in Nantes, France, Thursday, June 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)
FILE - Senegalese soccer supporters wave their national flags as they celebrate in front of Pisa's historical leaning tower, Italy, May 31, 2002, shortly after Senegal defeated France in the World Cup. (AP Photo/Fabio Muzzi, File)
FILE - Senegal's Moussa Ndiaye, right, and France's Bixente Lizarazu go for the ball during their World Cup Group A soccer match at the World Cup stadium in Seoul, May 31, 2002. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
FILE - A man watches the celebrations of Senegal's soccer players during the opening match France vs. Senegal of the soccer World Championships in South Korea on a wall of TV screens in a department store in downtown Hamburg, northern Germany, May 31, 2002. (AP Photo/Kirstin Knorr, File)
“Not for revenge do we want to win, but we want to go as far as possible in this competition,” France midfielder N’Golo Kanté said through a translator on Monday, a day before Les Bleus and Senegal meet in Group I.
Senegal was a French colony before 1960.
“We know that a game between France and Senegal is a very symbolic game,” Senegal coach Pape Thiaw said through a translator.
Six of France's players hadn't been born at the time of the 2002 game, when Papa Bouba Diop scored in the 30th minute while lying on his side. The Lions of Teranga reached the quarterfinals that year before losing to Turkey, while France went winless and failed to advance from its group.
“There’s no revenge in football,” France coach Didier Deschamps said through a translator. “This will be another page to write now and what happened in 2002, well, all the best for Senegal. I mean it was good for them at the time but we’ll make sure that the results be a positive for us this time.”
France is a two-time champion seeking to reach its third straight World Cup final. Les Blues won in 1998 and 2018, then lost the 2022 final to Argentina on penalty kicks.
The French team is ranked third in the world, while Senegal is 16th.
“Our main opponent is ourselves,” Kanté said. “We cannot see ourselves too beautiful or too strong."
Thiaw was picked for Senegal's 2002 roster but played in only one game, the round of 16 win over Sweden. He will pass along lessons learned from the late Bruno Metsu, Senegal’s 2002 coach.
“Of course, there is going to be a Bruno effect when I’m going to be talking to my players tomorrow,” Thiaw said. “I will also add my personal touch and also add what Bruno taught me along the way.”
Fans in Senegal were denied visas by the U.S. government but Thiaw expects supporters to be inside MetLife Stadium.
“Of course we’d like to have our fans. We know what they can do for us. They push us,” Thiaw said. “But we have a major Senegalese community and we know that the Senegalese is very patriotic and they like their national team. You will see this tomorrow. You won’t even believe it that no Senegalese came over from Senegal.”
Senegal won the Africa Cup of Nations in 2022, then beat Morocco 1-0 in this year’s final only to have the Atlas Lions awarded a 3-0 forfeit win by African soccer’s governing body because the Lions of Teranga left the field for 15 minutes during stoppage time in protest of a penalty kick awarded to their opponent.
Senegal has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
“For me we are champions of Africa, full stop,” Thiaw said.
Deschamps said in January he will retire this summer after 14 years in the same job. Tuesday's match will be his 20th as a World Cup coach, five shy of Helmut Schön's record with West Germany.
He is one of only three men to win World Cup titles as a player and coach, joining Mário Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer.
Tuesday's game starts at 3 p.m. EDT and sunny weather is forecast but the temperature at kickoff is likely to be about 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius), down significantly from last weekend.
France practiced at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, after arriving in the U.S. last Wednesday.
“We had to train in the heat, under the sun," Kanté said, "and we saw also how tired we could be as a result.”
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France's N'Golo Kante, right, challenges for the ball with Ivory Coast's Bazoumana Toure during the international friendly soccer match between France and Ivory Coast in Nantes, France, Thursday, June 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)
FILE - Senegalese soccer supporters wave their national flags as they celebrate in front of Pisa's historical leaning tower, Italy, May 31, 2002, shortly after Senegal defeated France in the World Cup. (AP Photo/Fabio Muzzi, File)
FILE - Senegal's Moussa Ndiaye, right, and France's Bixente Lizarazu go for the ball during their World Cup Group A soccer match at the World Cup stadium in Seoul, May 31, 2002. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
FILE - A man watches the celebrations of Senegal's soccer players during the opening match France vs. Senegal of the soccer World Championships in South Korea on a wall of TV screens in a department store in downtown Hamburg, northern Germany, May 31, 2002. (AP Photo/Kirstin Knorr, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock markets rallied worldwide Monday, and oil prices eased after the United States and Iran reached a tentative deal to extend their ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to get the global flow of crude going again.
The S&P 500 rose 1.7% on hopes that this time, the announcement of an Iran-U.S. agreement will mean a long-term fix to a conflict that has worsened inflation around the world. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 468 points, or 0.9%, to a record, and the Nasdaq composite jumped 3.1%.
Stocks got a lift after the price for a barrel of Brent crude oil fell 4.8% to $83.17, back to where it was in early March. While that’s still above its price of roughly $70 from before the war, it’s lower than the $100 plus it cost just a few weeks ago. The hope is that lower oil prices will take pressure off households and businesses, which have had to pay higher prices for everything from food to fuel to fertilizer because of the war with Iran.
Iran confirmed the deal, but it does not include a final agreement on issues like Iran’s nuclear program. Negotiations on that are expected to continue over the next 60 days, which leaves opportunity for hiccups that could derail the agreement. And even if the Strait of Hormuz does fully reopen on Friday as expected, it will likely take months for the energy industry to get back to full speed.
For now, though, relief swept through financial markets worldwide.
On Wall Street, stocks of companies with big fuel bills were instant winners. United Airlines flew 3.9% higher, and cruise operator Royal Caribbean Group rose 6.6%.
Stocks of companies enmeshed in the artificial-intelligence industry also jumped. These stocks have yo-yoed in recent weeks, going from roaring to records to suddenly turning lower. The concern is whether such stocks shot too high, too fast because of AI mania, and their careening moves have sometimes reversed direction by the hour.
Micron Technology rallied 10.8%, and Advanced Micro Devices rose 7%. Nvidia’s climb of 3.5% was the strongest force pushing the S&P 500 upward because the AI chip company is Wall Street’s most valuable company, giving it more weight on the index than any other.
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket company that also owns the AI company xAI, rose 19.6% in its second day of trading on Wall Street. Its successful debut on the Nasdaq suggested plenty of demand still exists among investors for AI. The market has given SpaceX a total value of more than $2.1 trillion, making it bigger than Exxon Mobil, Bank of America and Coca-Cola combined.
In the bond market, Treasury yields eased on hopes that lower oil prices will remove pressure on central banks to raise interest rates.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury slipped to 4.47% from 4.48% late Friday.
Europe’s central bank last week became the first major one in the world to raise interest rates because of the war with Iran. High interest rates can keep a lid on inflation, but they also slow economies and undercut prices for all kinds of investments, including stocks and cryptocurrencies. They hit investments seen as the most expensive in particular, and some critics are calling the AI industry a bubble where investment inflated too far.
The Fed will announce its latest decision on interest rates later this week, which will be the first under its new chair, Kevin Warsh. Traders see it as a near certainty that the Fed will leave its main interest rate steady after its two-day meeting ends Wednesday.
Traders had been raising bets that the Fed may have to raise interest rates this year because of how much inflation has accelerated and how solid the U.S. job market remains. But the tentative deal between the United States and Iran means traders are now betting on only a 57% chance of a hike this year, down from 71% a week ago, according to data from CME Group.
Elsewhere on Wall Street, Roku fell 1.9% after the company announced that Fox Corp. is buying the streaming pioneer in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $22 billion.
Roku’s stock had already soared 20% Friday, when media reports emerged about a deal, which will give Fox access to the Roku channel, first-party data and more than 100 million global streaming households. Fox’s stock fell 16.8%.
All told, the S&P 500 rose 122.83 points to 7,554.29. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 468.77 to 51,671.03, and the Nasdaq composite jumped 795.10 to 26,683.94.
In stock markets abroad, indexes climbed in Asia and Europe. Japan’s Nikkei 225 leaped 5% for one of the world’s biggest gains and finished at a record.
“This is great news,” said Takashi Hiroki, chief strategist at Monex. “Buying by foreign investors is leading the market with expectations of easing tensions around the situation in the Middle East.”
South Korea’s Kospi soared even more, 5.2%, thanks in part to continued rallies for AI winners like Samsung Electronics.
London’s FTSE 100 was an outlier and slipped 0.4%.
AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach and Senior Producer Mayuko Ono contributed to this report.
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