France national football team

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Template:National football team The France national football team is a European football team among the top sides in international football today.

France came third in the Template:Wc. The generation of Michel Platini and others came fourth in 1982, and third in 1986. In between, they won the European Championship in 1984.

France's most successful years were the late 1990s, the generation of Zidane and others. This team played in the semifinals of Template:Ec, two years later hosted and won the Template:Wc, and two years later won Template:Ec2.

Ranked as favourites, this team's performance in the Template:Wc was dismal, not winning a single game, nor scoring a goal. Despite this they were still among the favourites to win Template:Ec2, but were beaten in the quarter-finals by the eventual winners Greece.

Contents

World Cup record

European Championship record

Famous past players

   

Current squad

Goalkeepers:

Defenders:

Midfielders:

Forwards:

Player records

Most capped French players

As of November 12, 2005, the ten players with the most caps for France are:

# Name Career Caps Goals
1 Marcel Desailly 1993-2004 116 3
2 Lilian Thuram* 1994-2005 110 2
3 Didier Deschamps 1989-2000 103 4
4 Zinedine Zidane* 1994-2005 98 28
5 Laurent Blanc 1989-2000 97 16
Bixente Lizarazu 1992-2004 97 2
7 Patrick Vieira* 1997-2005 83 4
8 Manuel Amoros 1982-1992 82 1
Youri Djorkaeff 1993-2002 82 28
10 Robert Pires 1996-2004 79 14

Members of the 1998 World Cup-winning team are in bold. * denotes a player still playing or available for selection.

Top France goalscorers

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# Player Career Goals (Caps)
1 Michel Platini 1976-87 41 (72)
2 Thierry Henry* 1997-2005 31 (75)
David Trezeguet* 1998-2005 31 (60)
4 Just Fontaine 1953-60 30 (21)
Jean-Pierre Papin 1986-95 30 (54)
6 Youri Djorkaeff 1993-2002 28 (82)
Zinedine Zidane* 1994-2005 28 (98)
8 Sylvain Wiltord* 1999-2005 24 (76)
9 Jean Vincent 1953-61 22 (46)
10 Jean Nicolas 1933-38 21 (25)

Members of the 1998 World Cup-winning team are in bold. * denotes a player still playing or available for selection.

Coaches

Before 1955, players were selected by committee.

External links

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