FRANCE WORLD CUP FOOTBALL TEAM

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RESULTS

Opponent Score Date
Finland
L 16/11/2021
Kazakhstan
L 13/11/2021
Finland
L 07/09/2021
Ukraine
L 04/09/2021
Bosnia and Herzegovina
L 01/09/2021

WORLD CUP
QUALIFIERS TABLE

Club MP W D L GD Pts GF GA
FranceFrance 1 1 0 0 1 3 2 1
TunisiaTunisia 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
DenmarkDenmark 2 0 1 1 -1 1 1 2
AustraliaAustralia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

France world cup MATCH SCHEDULE

Group D

22/11/2022

Stadium

France
Australia

STARTS AT

20:00 GMT+0100

Al Janoub Stadium

Group D

30/11/2022

Stadium

Tunisia
France

STARTS AT

16:00 GMT+0100

Education City Stadium

14/12/2022

Stadium

France
Morocco

STARTS AT

20:00 GMT+0100

Al Bayt Stadium

france WORLD CUP team Squad

Reigning world champions France head to Qatar looking to defend their crown from Russia 2018. Despite a poor showing at the previous Euros, they still boast perhaps the best group of individual players in world football and will be looking to be only the third team to win back-to-back Finals after Italy (1934 & 1938) and Brazil (1958 & 1962). 

The French World Cup 2022 squad is littered with star names from Presnel Kimpembe and N’Golo Kanté, through Paul Pogba and Antoine Griezmann, to Karim Benzema and Kylian Mbappé. A whole host of other talented players, who would likely start for other nations, will not even make the squad.  

Their route to the Finals was relatively simple, finishing top of their European qualifying group without losing a game. On paper at least – having drawn Australia, Denmark and Tunisia – they will also fancy their chances of progressing from the World Cup group stage in the same straightforward manner. 

Attacker

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Olivier Giroud
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Ousmane Dembélé
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Wissam Ben Yedder
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Karim Benzema
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Antoine Griezmann
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20
Kingsley Coman
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Kylian Mbappé
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Marcus Thuram
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Anthony Martial
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Moussa Diaby
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Jonathan Ikoné

Midfielder

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Moussa Sissoko
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Paul Pogba
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N’Golo Kanté
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Thomas Lemar
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Corentin Tolisso
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14
Adrien Rabiot
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12
Mattéo Guendouzi
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Houssem Aouar
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Nabil Fekir
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Tanguy Ndombélé
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Eduardo Camavinga
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Aurélien Tchouaméni
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Steven Nzonzi
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Jordan Veretout

Defender

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Lucas Digne
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Kurt Zouma
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Clément Lenglet
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Raphaël Varane
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Lucas Hernández
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Benjamin Pavard
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Léo Dubois
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Presnel Kimpembe
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Jules Koundé
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Benjamin Mendy
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Theo Hernández
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Dayot Upamecano
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Nordi Mukiele
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Ferland Mendy
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Ruben Aguilar

Goalkeeper

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Hugo Lloris
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Steve Mandanda
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Mike Maignan
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Alphonse Areola
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Benoît Costil

France world cup team coach

Didier Deschamps has been the long-term manager of the French national side having taken up the post in 2012. He collected over 100 caps as a player, captaining the side to win both the 1998 World Cup and Euros in 2000. 

Retiring from playing quite early at the age of 32, he transitioned into management seamlessly by reaching the final of the UEFA Champions League with Monaco in his second season. A short, but successful, spell at Juventus was followed by a move with Marseille where he won the league title and three cup finals.

The appointment as French manager seemed inevitable, and Deschamps guided the side to a quarter-final position at his first World Cup in 2014. A loss against Portugal in the Euro ’16 Final was a blow, but the 2018 triumph saw Deschamps become only the third man to win the World Cup as both a player and manager (Mario Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer being the others). 

france’s football team captain

The captain of the 2022 France squad is Hugo Lloris who has been granted the honour since 2010. Whilst it is not too common for a goalkeeper to be made team captain, Lloris’s professionalism and influence in the dressing room has made him the standout choice for the role.

This is also the case for his club side where the 35-year-old Lloris has been Tottenham Hotspur captain from 2015, making over 400 appearances since signing 10 years ago. He started his career in his native homeland playing for first Nice and then Lyon. 

WHO ARE france’s top scorers?

Among France’s national team, their top scorers are:

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Antoine Griezmann
WITH A TOTAL OF 6 GOALS
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Kylian Mbappé
WITH A TOTAL OF 5 GOALS
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Karim Benzema
WITH A TOTAL OF 3 GOALS

Which of FRANCE’s players have the most assists?

Among France’s national team, players with the most assists are:

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Theo Hernández
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Kylian Mbappé
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Kingsley Coman

all with 5 assists each.

How many times have France won the World Cup?

France have won the World Cup on two occasions, both coming quite recently in 1998 and 2018. They were also runners-up against Italy in 2006, losing on penalties in the famous ‘Zidane’ final, and have reached the semi-finals on a further three occasions.

Can Karim Benzema play in the 2022 World Cup?

After missing out on the previous Finals in 2018 due to disciplinary reasons, Benzema returned to the national team setup in 2021 and looks set to play once again in what is likely to be his last ever World Cup in Qatar.

Which attackers start for France?

With such an array of attacking talent at his disposal, it is hard for Didier Deschamps to fit all his best attacking players in the starting XI. In their 2022 World Cup qualifying games, they mostly played with Mbappe, Benzema and Griezmann in the attacking positions, although Kingsley Coman is also pushing for a start. 

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