French national football team | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-23

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_football_team


00:02:46 1 History
00:19:12 2 Home stadium
00:21:59 3 Team image
00:22:08 3.1 Media coverage
00:23:22 3.2 Kits and crest
00:26:12 3.2.1 Kit suppliers
00:26:20 3.2.2 Kit deals
00:26:28 3.3 Nickname
00:27:23 3.4 Representation of multi-ethnic France
00:33:25 4 Coaching staff
00:33:38 5 Players
00:33:46 5.1 Current squad
00:34:11 5.2 Recent call-ups
00:34:37 6 Results and fixtures
00:34:46 6.1 2018
00:34:55 6.2 2019
00:35:04 7 Competitive record
00:35:21 7.1 FIFA World Cup record
00:36:55 7.2 UEFA European Championship record
00:37:48 7.3 FIFA Confederations Cup record
00:38:34 7.4 UEFA Nations League record
00:38:44 7.5 Minor tournaments
00:39:03 8 Honours
00:40:01 8.1 Minor titles
00:40:41 9 Statistics
00:40:51 9.1 Most capped players
00:41:05 9.2 Top goalscorers
00:41:20 9.3 Managers
00:41:38 10 See also



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The France national football team (French: Équipe de France de football) represents France in international football and is controlled by the French Football Federation, also known as FFF, or in French: Fédération française de football.  The team's colours are blue, white and red, and the coq gaulois its symbol. France are colloquially known as Les Bleus (The Blues). The French side are the reigning World Cup holders, having won the 2018 FIFA World Cup on 15 July 2018.
France play home matches at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Paris, and the manager is Didier Deschamps. They have won two FIFA World Cups, two UEFA European Championships, two FIFA Confederations Cups and one Olympic tournament. France experienced much of its success in four major eras: in the 1950s, 1980s, late 1990s/early 2000s, and mid/late 2010s, respectively, which resulted in numerous major honours. France was one of the four European teams that participated in the inaugural World Cup in 1930 and, although having been eliminated in the qualification stage six times, is one of only three teams that have entered every World Cup qualifying cycle.In 1958, the team, led by Raymond Kopa and Just Fontaine, finished in third place at the FIFA World Cup. In 1984, France, led by Ballon d'Or winner Michel Platini, won UEFA Euro 1984 and Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Under the captaincy of Didier Deschamps and three-time FIFA World Player of the Year Zinedine Zidane, France won the FIFA World Cup in 1998. Two years later, the team triumphed at UEFA Euro 2000. France won the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2001 and 2003, and reached the 2006 FIFA World Cup final, which it lost 5–3 on penalties to Italy. The team also reached the final of UEFA Euro 2016, where they lost 1–0 to Portugal in extra time. France won the 2018 FIFA World Cup, defeating Croatia 4–2 in the final match on 15 July 2018. This was the second time they had won the tournament after winning it on home soil in 1998.
France was the first national team that has won the three most important men’s titles recognized by FIFA: the World Cup, the Confederations Cup, and the Olympic tournament after victory in the Confederations Cup in 2001. Since 2001, Argentina (after the 2004 Olympics) and Brazil (after the 2016 Olympics) are the other two national teams that have won these three titles. They have also won their respective continental championship (Copa América for Argentina and Brazil, and UEFA European Championship for France).