Question: When was the last time the world cup was won by the winner of the 2018 semifinal in the event that was the first HDTV broadcast in Europe?

<P0-S0> The French team won its first and only World Cup title in 1998. <P0-S1> The tournament was played on home soil and France defeated Brazil 3 -- 0 in the final match. <P0-S2> The tournament was hosted in France once before in 1938, where France was eliminated by defending champions Italy in the quarter finals. <SEP> <P1-S0> The first HDTV transmissions in Europe, albeit not direct-to-home, began in 1990, when the Italian broadcaster RAI used the HD-MAC and MUSE HDTV technologies to broadcast the 1990 FIFA World Cup. <P1-S1> The matches were shown in 8 cinemas in Italy and 2 in Spain. <P1-S2> The connection with Spain was made via the Olympus satellite link from Rome to Barcelona and then with a fiber optic connection from Barcelona to Madrid. <P1-S3> After some HDTV transmissions in Europe the standard was abandoned in the mid-1990s. <SEP> <P2-S0> the 2006 fifa world cup was the 18th fifa world cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. <P2-S1> it was held from 9 june to 9 july 2006 in germany, which won the right to host the event in july 2000. teams representing 198 national football associations from all six populated continents participated in the qualification process which began in september 2003. thirty - one teams qualified from this process, along with the host nation, germany, for the finals tournament. <P2-S2> it was the second time that germany staged the competition (the first was in 1974 as west germany), and the tenth time that it was held in europe. <SEP> <P3-S0> the 2002 fifa world cup was the 17th staging of the fifa world cup which took place from 31 may to 30 june 2002 in south korea and japan. <P3-S1> this world cup set a number of precedents. <P3-S2> it was the first world cup to be held in asia. <P3-S3> no previous world cup was held on a continent other than europe or the americas. <P3-S4> it was also the first world cup to be jointly hosted by more than one nation. <P3-S5> finally, this was the last event to use the golden goal rule. <P3-S6> brazil won the tournament for a record fifth time, winning the final against germany 2 -- 0. the victory meant brazil qualified for the 2005 fifa confederations cup for the fifth time, representing the world. <P3-S7> in the third place play - off match against south korea, turkey won 3 -- 2 taking third place in only their second ever fifa world cup finals. <P3-S8> china pr, ecuador, senegal and slovenia made their first appearances at the finals. <SEP> <P4-S0> Round of 16 Quarter - finals Semi-finals Final 30 June -- Sochi Uruguay 6 July -- Nizhny Novgorod Portugal Uruguay 0 30 June -- Kazan France France 10 July -- Saint Petersburg Argentina France 2 July -- Samara Belgium 0 Brazil 6 July -- Kazan Mexico 0 Brazil 2 July -- Rostov - on - Don Belgium Belgium 15 July -- Moscow (Luzhniki) Japan France 1 July -- Moscow (Luzhniki) Croatia Spain 1 (3) 7 July -- Sochi Russia (p) 1 (4) Russia 2 (3) 1 July -- Nizhny Novgorod Croatia (p) 2 (4) Croatia (p) 1 (3) 11 July -- Moscow (Luzhniki) Denmark 1 (2) Croatia (a.e.t.) <P4-S1> 3 July -- Saint Petersburg England Third place play - off Sweden 7 July -- Samara 14 July -- Saint Petersburg Switzerland 0 Sweden 0 Belgium 3 July -- Moscow (Otkritie) England England 0 Colombia 1 (3) England (p) 1 (4)