The France national football team represents France in men's world football and is governed by the French Football Federation, also known as the FFF. The crew's colors are blue, white, and purple, and its symbol is similar to Galois. France is colloquially known as Les Bleus.
Arena/Stadium: Stade de France
Captain: Hugo Lloris
Manager: Didier Deschamps
League: World Cup
Alias(s): Les Bleus (Blues)
Current: Four (October 6, 2022)
Players
Kylian Mbappé 10
Forward
Olivier Giroud 9
Forward
Antoine Griezmann 7
Forward
Hugo Lloris
Goalkeeper 1
Under the leadership of captain Didier Deschamps and with Zinedine Zidane on the pitch, Le Bleu won the FIFA World Cup in 1998 and won Euro 2000. They also won the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2001 and 2003. Three years later, France reached the final of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, losing to Italy 5-3 on penalties. Ten years later, the group reached the final of the UEFA European Championship, where they lost to Portugal 1-0 in extra time. Two years later, France won the 2018 FIFA World Cup, taking 2nd place in this confrontation, defeating Croatia 4-2 in the last match on July 15, 2018. Finally, the French national team became the first European team to win all possible senior FIFA and confederations competitions after winning the UEFA Nations League in October 2021. France is considered to compete with Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Portugal, Italy, England, Croatia, and Germany.
History
The French national football team turned into a team created in 1904 during the founding of FIFA on May 21, 1904, and held its first official match worldwide on May 1, 1904, against Belgium in Brussels, which ended in a 3-3 draw. The following year, on February 12, 1905, France held its first stories home match against Switzerland. The match was held at the Parc des Princes stadium in front of 500 fans. France won 1-0, and Gaston Kipres scored the best goal. Due to disagreements between FIFA and the Union of French Athletics Societies (USFSA), the United States sports activities union, France has struggled to create an identity. On May 9, 1908, the French Inter-Federal Committee (CFI), a competitor of the USFSA, decided that FIFA could now be responsible for the club's performances at the upcoming Olympic Games, not the USFSA. In 1919, CFI transformed into the French Football Federation (FFF). In 1921, the USFSA finally merged with the FFF.
In July 1930, France participated in the first FIFA World Cup in Uruguay. In their first World Cup match, France defeated Mexico 4-1 at the Pocitos Stadium in Montevideo. Lucien Laurent has become an extraordinary player in the "healthy", scoring now not the most productive goal of France at the World Cup, but the first goal in the history of the World Cup. Conversely, France also became the first team to now not to score a single goal in a match after losing 1-0 to Argentina. Another defeat against Chile led to the fact that the team was eliminated at the organizational level. The following year, an initial selection of a black participant for a team across the country was held. Raoul Dije, disguised as a Senegalese by origin, earned his first goal on February 15 in a match against Czechoslovakia with a score of 2:1. Later, Dianye played with the team at the 1938 World Cup together with Larbi Benbarek, who became one of the first North African launch pad players to play for the national team. At the 1934 World Cup, France was defeated in the decisive match, losing to Austria with a score of 3:2. Upon the return of the film crew to Paris, they were greeted as heroes by a crowd of more than four 000 supporters. France hosted the 1938 World Cup and reached the quarterfinals, losing 3-1 to the defending champions Italy.
Home Stadium
In the early years of France, the team's national stadium alternated between the Parc Prince in Paris and the Yves du Manoir Olympic Stadium in Colombes. France additionally hosted matches at the Stade Pershing, Stade de Paris, and Stade Buffalo stadiums, but with a minimum score. Over the years, France began to place costumes outside of Paris at venues such as the Marcel Sapin Stadium in Nantes, the Velodrome Stadium in Marseille, the Stade de Gerland in Lyon, and the Stade de la Mainau in Strasbourg.
After the protection of the Parc des, Princes in 1972, which gave the stadium the greatest potential in Paris, France completely moved to this place. Nevertheless, the group played pleasant matches and minor qualifying matches of the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Football Championship at different venues. Twice the French national team has played home matches in a foreign branch – in 2005 against Costa Rica in Fort-de-France (Martinique) and in 2010 against China in Saint-Pierre (Reunion). Both lawsuits were friendly.
In 1998, the Stade de France was inaugurated as the national stadium of France on the eve of the 1998 World Cup. Located in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris, the stadium has 81,338 seats. The first match of the French national team at the stadium took place on January 28, 1998, against Spain. France won the match 1-0, and Zinedine Zidane scored the only goal. Since then, France has used the stadium for almost all important home matches, including the most recent 1998 World Cup.
Before fits, home or away, the national team trains at the INF Clairefontaine Academy in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines. Clairefontaine is a national soccer center and is one of the 12 elite academies during the U.S. Soccer Championship. The center was opened in 1976 by former FFF President Fernand Sastre and opened in 1988. The center attracted media attention after it was used as a base camp by the team that won the 1998 World Cup.
Nickname
The media and fans often refer to France as Les Bleus (Blue), a nickname associated with all French teams playing around the world, because of the blue T-shirts worn by all teams. The team is also called Les Tricolores or L'Equipe Tricolore (the Tricolor Team) because of the team's use of all-Russian shades of the USA: blue, white, and red. In the 1980s, France was nicknamed the "Brazilians of Europe" mainly because of the praises of the "Square Magic" ("Magic Square"), which was founded by Michel Platini. Under the leadership of coach Michel Hidalgo, the French national team demonstrated an inspiring, stylish, skillful, and technically superior attacking style of football, which has become strikingly similar to their South American counterparts. Despite the fact that the defense of France is focused on attack, it is considered one of the best in the world for its aggressiveness and technicality.
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