Major International Competition Records (since 1990)
'98 France World Cup champion, Euro 2000 champion, 2001 Confederations Cup champion
After suprise win over brazil in world cup 2002 ,france has totally gone to thier den.Their first round exit from the last edition of the world cup has been great shock to many fans of french teams.Though the hero of the 98 world cup Zinedine Zidane doesn't seem to be in that form ,thier new hero thery henry has brought up many hopes for the fans of french team.
Desipte of being underdogs in most of the tournament france has always come up strong when they are not expected to do good.So who knows in this world cup they might bring a big surprise.
France and nepalese fan
The very good peformance of french team in thier home land in 1998 sawmany people laving the french team in Nepal.The number were almost doubled after they beat brazil in final 3-0.The country even saw a victory rally in streets in kathmandu.However the numbers of fan has significally gone down after team's poor performance in World Cup 2002 and recent tournament.Despite of it, fans of french players like Thierry Henry can be found in major cities.
History:
1930: Preliminary round,
1934: Round of 16,
1938: Quarter-finals,
1954: Preliminary round,
1958: Third place,
1966: Preliminary round,
1978: Preliminary round,
1982: Fourth place,
1986: Third place,
1998: World Champions,
2002: Preliminary round
France have produced many great talentslike Michel Platini, Alain Giresse and Jean Tigana.
Stars Zinedine Zidane is the shining light of French soccer and has been elected World Player of the Year three times. In August 2004, he retired from the international team. But one year later, he returned to the field when the French team was threatening to fail the World Cup qualifiers.
The cutting edge of the team will be provided by one of the world's best strikers, Thierry Henry.
Other players like David Trezeguet, may also bring some cheers for team.
Match Schedule: Preliminary Round
June 13, 2006: France -- Switzerland in Stuttgart
June 18, 2006: France -- South Korea in Leipzig
June 23, 2006: Togo -- France in Cologne
Squad:
Goalkeepers: Fabien Barthez, Gregory Coupet, Mickael Landreau. Defenders: Eric Abidal, Jean-Alain Boumsong, Pascal Chimbonda, William Gallas, Gael Givet, Willy Sagnol, Mikael Silvestre, Lilian Thuram. Midfielders: Vikash Dhorasoo, Alou Diarra, Claude Makelele, Florent Malouda, Patrick Vieira, Zinedine Zidane. Forwards: Djibril Cisse, Thierry Henry, Franck Ribery, Louis Saha, David Trezeguet, Sylvain Wiltord.
Bottom line: As zidane has been included in the team for just a motivational factor all lies in the shoulder of Thierry Henry who have been performing well in english premiere leauge.The team should be able to forget what has happened in the past 4 years and believe in themselves to do some thing in world cup 2006.Other wise thier World Cup campagin may not go beyond first round this time as well.
The new players may bring some surprise for other nations.
Some facts and recent developments:
France are only defending champion to exit World cup even scoring a single goal.
Their veteran player Zinedine Zidane retired from international football earlier this year however he again came back to team because of poor performance of team in world cup qualifier.
Howeever he has stated that he will retire from international foot ball after World cup 2006.
France is founder members of FIFA and have competed in 11 FIFA World Cup finals.
France are one of only two teams to have taken part in every qualifying competition thus far. They have gone on to play in 11 out of a possible 17 finals.
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