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.

1 World Cup record
2 European Championship record
3 Famous past players
4 Current squad
5 Player records
- 5.1 Most capped French players
- 5.2 Top France goalscorers
6 Coaches
7 External links

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World Cup record

1930 - Round 1
1934 - Round 1
1938 - Quarterfinals
1950 - Did not qualify
1954 - Round 1
1958 - Third place
1962 - Did not qualify
1966 - Round 1
1970 - Did not qualify
1974 - Did not qualify
1978 - Round 1
1982 - Fourth place
1986 - Third place
1990 - Did not qualify
1994 - Did not qualify
1998 - Champions
2002 - Round 1
2006 - Qualified

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European Championship record

1960 - Fourth place
1964 to 1980 - Did not qualify
1984 - Champions
1988 - Did not qualify
1992 - Round 1
1996 - Semifinals
2000 - Champions
2004 - Quarterfinals

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Famous past players

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Current squad

Goalkeepers:

Defenders:

Midfielders:

Forwards:

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Player records

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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.

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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)