The
France national football team represents the
nation of France
in
international football. It
is fielded by the
French
Football Federation and competes as a member of
UEFA.
France was one of the four European teams that participated at the
inaugural World Cup in 1930. In
the 1980s, led by
midfielder and
captain Michel
Platini, the team reached semi-finals at both the 1982 and 1986
World Cups, and won the
1984 European
Championship.
France then reached an even higher status in international football
by being especially successful at the end of the 1990s and in the
2000s; they won the
World Cup as the
host nation in
1998, and the
European Football
Championship two
years later, while also placing second at the
2006 World Cup tournament. Midfielder
and former captain
Zinédine
Zidane was particularly instrumental in achieving those
honours.
France and
Argentina are the
only national teams which have won the three most important men's
titles organized by FIFA
: the World
Cup, the Confederations Cup, and the Olympic
Tournament.
History
Early years
France's first ever game was a 3–3 draw against
Belgium in 1904.
They played in all three of the pre-World War II World Cups.
Lucien Laurent scored the first ever
World Cup goal in
1930, in a 4–1
win over
Mexico. They
reached the quarterfinals in
1938 when they hosted the World
Cup.
France came third in the
1958 FIFA
World Cup, defeating Germany 6–3 for the bronze. France was
beaten by Brazil in semi-finals, after central defender
Robert Jonquet's injury and
Pelé hat-trick. Striker
Just Fontaine scored a record 13 goals in the
tournament, doing so in just six matches. The team used mainly
players and former players from
Stade de
Reims, such as
Raymond Kopa,
Robert Jonquet,
Roger Marche or
Just
Fontaine, who was at the time one of the best teams in European
football.
Platini era
During the captaincy of
Michel
Platini France's World Cup performance markedly improved,
finishing fourth in
Spain
'82, and third in
Mexico
'86. In both tournaments, they lost in the semi-finals to
West Germany. The
1982 semi-final is unfortunately remembered by many for West German
keeper
Harald Schumacher's
elbowing of France's
Patrick
Battiston in the face as the latter made a shot on goal.
Despite severely injuring Battiston, Schumacher was not penalized.
This was the turning point of the match: after leading 3–1,
Les
Bleus were eliminated in the penalty-kicks, after
Nantes' defender
Maxime
Bossis saw his shot stopped by Schumacher. France were also
knocked out in the semi-final 1986, again by West Germany. However,
with Platini as skipper, France, as host nation, won
Euro '84, as well
as capturing Olympic gold in
Los
Angeles the same year.
Late 1980s/Early 1990s
Platini was named coach of the French national side on 1 November
1988, replacing
Henri Michel, who had
been forced out after France infamously drew with
Cyprus (1–1) in a
1990 World Cup qualifier. France's
qualifying campaign was ultimately unsuccessful.
The focus
of the team shifted to qualifying for the 1992 European
Championship in Sweden
.
France excelled in the qualifying stages, winning all eight of
their group matches, including notable victories away to Spain and
Czechoslovakia. After
a record 19-match unbeaten run, they were among the favourites to
win the competition and Platini was named
Manager of the Year
by the World Soccer Awards. But a string of uninspiring
performances in warm-up matches, followed by France's first-round
elimination from the tournament, led Platini to step down as
coach.
Gérard Houllier was named the
new national team coach and was given the task of leading France to
qualification
for the
1994 World Cup. After
starting with a loss away to
Bulgaria, France went on an
unbeaten run culminating in them requiring just one point from
their final two games (at home against
Israel and Bulgaria) to
qualify. However, a shock 3–2 loss to Israel meant that France now
required at least a draw against Bulgaria. With the score at 1–1,
France looked set for qualification, but a last-minute goal from
Bulgaria's
Emil Kostadinov saw the
French team eliminated with Bulgaria proceeding to the World Cup
Finals in their place.
Houllier resigned and
Aimé Jacquet
took over the job of national coach. In preparation for
Euro 96, Jacquet axed prominent players such as
Jean-Pierre Papin and
David Ginola, and decided to build the team
around
Eric Cantona making him the
team's captain. However, Cantona received a nine-month ban from all
football in 1995 after attacking an opposition fan and he too was
never selected again. Jacquet now concentrated on a new generation
of French players, most notably
Zinedine
Zidane.
Zinedine Zidane era
France's very successful years were the late 1990s because of the
generation of
Zinédine Zidane.
This team started off well by reaching the semi-finals of
Euro '96. After Euro 96,
coach
Aimé Jacquet adopted a very
defensive strategy and made fans anxious because his team never
seemed to develop a definitive offensive tactic. The press began to
attack the team manager, calling his methods "
Paleolithic," and claiming that the
team had no hope for the upcoming
World
Cup which would be hosted in their home country. In June 1997
at the
Tournoi de France, cries of
"Resign!" could be heard from the stadium as the French team came
in under
Brazil,
England, and
Italy. The
media's distrust of Jacquet reached fever pitch in May 1998 when,
instead of a list of 22 players meant to play in the World Cup,
Jacquet gave a list of 28 players, causing the sports daily
L'Équipe to write an editoral
arguing that Jacquet was not the right man to lead the French team
to victory. However, the team won the
1998 World Cup.
Euro 2000
Jacquet stepped down after France's World Cup triumph and was
succeeded by assistant Roger Lemerre who guided them through
Euro 2000.
Zidane cemented his
FIFA
World Player of the Year form, scoring a direct free kick in
the quarter-final against Spain and a
golden
goal penalty in the semi-final against Portugal .
In the finals, France defeated
Italy 2–1 in a come-from-behind
victory.
David Trezeguet scored the
golden goal in extra time after an equalizing goal from
Sylvain Wiltord in the fifth minute of
stoppage time. This gave them the distinction of being the first
national team to hold both the World Cup and Euro titles since
West Germany did so
in 1974, and it was also the first time that a reigning World Cup
winner went on to capture the Euro
[33829]. France held the top position in the
FIFA World Rankings system from
2000-2001.
2002 World Cup and Euro 2004
France failed to maintain that pace in subsequent tournaments.
Although they won the Confederations Cup in 2001, they suffered a
stunning goalless first round elimination in the
2002 FIFA World Cup, possibly due in
part to an injury to key playmaker Zidane. One of the greatest
shocks in World Cup history condemned France to a 1–0 defeat to
debutante
Senegal in
the opening game of the tournament. After France finished bottom of
the group - only securing one point, in a 0–0 draw against
Uruguay, conceding three
goals and without scoring any – Lemerre was dismissed.
A full strength team started out strongly in
UEFA Euro 2004, with Zidane scoring a free
kick and a penalty to overcome a 1–0 deficit and defeat England in
the group stage, but they were upset in the quarter-finals by the
eventual upset-winners
Greece.
Jacques Santini resigned as coach and
Raymond Domenech was picked as his
replacement.
2006 World Cup
France struggled in the qualifiers for the
2006 FIFA World Cup, managing only 0–0
draws with
Israel,
Republic of
Ireland, and
Switzerland. This
prompted Domenech to persuade "golden generation" members
Claude Makélélé,
Lilian Thuram, and Zinedine Zidane out of
international retirement to help the national team qualify. This
was France's first successful World Cup qualification since 1986
(France received automatic berths in 1998 and 2002, as hosts and
defending champions).
The team was greeted with modest expectations as it entered the
World Cup tournament, with many arguing that despite the return of
the three stars, its squad was too old to be competitive. They had
a slow start in the group stage and were in danger of being
eliminated after managing only 0–0 and 1–1 draws against
Switzerland and South Korea, respectively. Though Zidane was forced
to sit out because of accumulated bookings, France found their form
and won their final group match, beating Togo 2–0 to advance to the
knockout round. There, Zidane would score or assist in every game
of the playoffs and his team upset heavily favoured
Spain 3–1 in a come-from-behind
victory to advance to the quarter-finals.
France eliminated defending champions
Brazil 1–0 to advance into the
cup semi-finals. Despite the score, France had thoroughly outplayed
Brazil in the match, only facing one shot on goal, while Zidane
created numerous scoring chances with his dribbles past Brazilian
defenders and his free-kick to
Thierry
Henry resulting in the winning goal. The game made France the
first team to have shut out the five-time champions in consecutive
matches;
Fabien Barthez was the
keeper in both matches.
Les Bleus now have a 2–1–1
all-time record against Brazil in World Cup finals play, having
shut the
Selecção out in the last three meetings (the 1986
match was decided 4–3 on penalties after a 1–1 draw).
France emerged from the semi-finals winning 1–0 over
Portugal. Henry was tripped
inside the box and a penalty was awarded, which Zidane scored and
it stood as the winning goal, as defender
Lilian Thuram neutralized offensive threats
from Portuguese stars
Pauleta and
Cristiano Ronaldo.
At home, when news
came of France's victory, there were mass celebrations at the
Eiffel
Tower
and Arc de Triomphe
.
France took on
Italy in
the final, in which the teams were level at 1–1 at the end of
normal time. With extra-time failing to produce a victor, penalty
kicks were required to settle the match. Italy won the shoot-out
5–3 to be crowned 2006 World Champions. The tournament's
Golden Ball Winner
Zinedine Zidane (playing his last professional match) scored the
opening goal of the final (becoming only the fourth player to score
in two World Cup final games), but his accomplishments in the
finals were marred by his sending off (becoming only the fourth
player to be sent off in a world cup final) for violent conduct
when he
headbutted
Marco Materazzi with only eight minutes until extra-time.
Euro 2008 Qualifiers
France
started its qualifying
round for UEFA Euro 2008 on 2
September 2006 by beating Georgia in Tbilisi
3-0.The goal
scorers for this match were Malouda, Louis Saha and Malkhaz Asatiani (own goal).
They then
took on world champions Italy 3–1 in Paris
on 6 September 2006 with Sidney Govou striking twice along with Henry,
but suffered an upset when beaten 1–0 by Scotland on 7 October 2006,
their first European Championship qualifying defeat since they lost
3–2 to Russia on 5
June 1999. On 11 October 2006, France defeated the
Faroe Islands by a
score of 5–0. All the French strikers that played in the match
scored. Goals came from
Louis Saha,
Thierry Henry,
Nicolas Anelka, and
two goals from the
Juventus striker
David Trezeguet. France beat
Lithuania 1–0 on 24
March 2007 with
Chelsea striker Nicolas
Anelka rescuing an injury hit French side by shooting a wonderful
long range effort. The injuries suffered by France, however, were
Louis Saha, Thierry Henry,
Franck
Ribéry,
Patrick Vieira, and David
Trézéguet. France took on
Ukraine on 2 June 2007 in
Paris. Both teams were hit by injuries, with France missing Patrick
Vieira and Thierry Henry while Ukraine missed their world-class
striker
Andriy Shevchenko. The
game ended in a 2–0 victory for France, with second-half strikes
from Franck Ribéry and Nicolas Anelka, who scored his third goal in
three matches.
Then, on 6 June 2007, France defeated
Georgia in Auxerre
1–0, with
Samir Nasri scoring his first senior
international goal. On 8 September 2007, in a much-anticipated
rematch, France and Italy played to a 0–0 draw at the San Siro
in Milan
.
Once again
though, on 12 September 2007, France fell to Scotland and were
defeated 1–0 after Mickaël
Landreau was caught off guard with a strike from Scotland's
James McFadden, adding another loss,
but this time at the Parc des Princes
in Paris. On 12 October 2007, their match with the
Faroe Islands was threatened with postponement after bad weather
kept their plane from landing in the Faroe Islands
; they had to spend the night in Norway
. The
next day, however, on 13 October 2007, the match went ahead as
planned, albeit around 30 minutes after scheduled kick-off time
with France taking just 8 minutes to open up a 2–0 lead; the match
eventually finished 6–0 with strikes from Nicolas Anelka, Thierry
Henry, and two goals from
Karim
Benzema just before half time. In the second half,
Jérôme Rothen and
Hatem Ben Arfa completed the rout. With
Italy's victory over Scotland on 17 November 2007, France only
just, by two points over Scotland, qualified for Euro 2008.
Euro 2008
Despite
high expectations from followers of Les Bleus, the squad
made a stuttering start to the 2008
European Championships, drawing 0–0 to Romania in Zürich
and then finishing on the receiving end of a 4–1
mauling at the hands of the Netherlands in Bern
.For
the final group game against
Italy,
Raymond Domenech dropped
Lilian Thuram and replaced him with
Éric Abidal. This proved to be a bad
decision as Abidal looked out of his depth in the centre of defence
and subsequently was sent off for a rash challenge on
Luca Toni. France continued to play poorly and
when they lost 2–0 to Italy, they came last of their group and
failed to get to the quarter-finals.
France's
performance at Euro 2008 effectively marked the end of its golden
era stemming back to the team's World
Cup win on home soil in 1998, which was followed by their
triumph at UEFA Euro 2000 two years
later in the
Netherlands
and Belgium
. Only three players from those successful
teams were selected in the final squad for Euro 2008 by French
coach Raymond Domenech, with only
Thierry
Henry and Lilian Thuram earning game time, though their
effectiveness and performances were soundly criticised by French
football media. The third remaining player,
Patrick Vieira, was initially named the team
captain but was unable to take the field in any of France's Euro
matches due to a thigh injury. The team's early exit from the
tournament signalled the international retirements of
Lilian Thuram, and
Claude Makélélé;
Willy Sagnol also announced that he would take
time to contemplate his international future.
France's efforts were comparable to their disastrous 2002 World Cup
campaign where they were also eliminated in the first round without
winning a game. France bettered their efforts from 2002 by scoring
a solitary goal in this tournament compared to their goalless
campaign six years prior.
In the aftermath of the tournament, calls were made for the sacking
of
Raymond Domenech, and
Didier Deschamps, captain of the 1998 World
Cup and 2000 Euro championship teams, was sounded out as a suitable
replacement. However, on 3 July, at a French Football Federation
high level meeting in Paris, it was announced that Domenech would
be retained as manager.
2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification
France's
campaign for 2010 World Cup qualification got off to a
disappointing start with a 3–1 defeat at the hands of Austria in Vienna
on 6
September 2008. Speculation followed regarding the future of
Raymond Domenech as team coach prior to the subsequent match,
against
Serbia, four
days later. There, with goals from
Thierry
Henry and
Nicolas Anelka, France
gained a 2–1 home victory. On 11 October, France drew 2–2 with
Romania, after coming
back from a 2–0 deficit. In 2009, France resumed their
qualification with a back to back 1–0 win over
Lithuania, thanks to
Franck Ribéry, as he scored the
only goal in both games on 28 March and 1 April.
A narrow
1–0 victory over the Faroe Islands in
Tórshavn
on 12 August 2009 was achieved thanks to a
first-half goal by André-Pierre
Gignac. Then, a disappointing 1–1 home draw with Romania
followed by another 1–1 draw away to Serbia put France on the brink
of missing out on the automatic qualification spot as group
winners. Thierry Henry scored in both 1–1 draw matches and put his
tally to 50 international goals. France finished second in the
group, behind Serbia, and earned a spot in the UEFA play-offs
against the
Republic of
Ireland for a place in
South
Africa.
On 14 November 2009, France met the Republic of Ireland in the
first leg of the play-off. The score stayed level until
Nicolas Anelka found the goal in the 72nd
minute when his shot deflected off
Sean
St Ledger and ended up in the back of the net. The first leg of
the two games finished 1–0 for France.
France
1–1 Republic of Ireland -
Robbie
Keane scored for Ireland and
William
Gallas scored for France on a controversial goal.
Thierry Henry handled the ball twice before
crossing to Gallas for the game-winning goal in extra time. Henry
admitted handling the ball. "I have never denied that the ball was
controlled with my hand," Henry said. ...
"Naturally, I feel
embarrassed at the way that we won and feel extremely sorry for the
Irish who definitely deserve to be in South Africa," Despite
appeals for a replay, FIFA
rejected the
request. The
Football Association of
Ireland said that the incident, which dominated news bulletins
in Ireland all day as well as being discussed in parliament, had
"damaged the integrity of the sport."
Goalscorers during the 2010 FIFA World Cup
qualification
André-Pierre Gignac 4
goals
Thierry Henry 4 goals
Franck Ribéry 3 goals
Karim Benzema 2 goals
Sidney Govou 1 goal
Nicolas Anelka 1 goal
Yoann Gourcuff 1 goal
William Gallas 1goal
Representing multi-ethnic France
The French national football team has long reflected the ethnic
diversity of the country. The first black player playing in the
national team was
Raoul Diagne in 1931,
the son of the first African elected to the French National
Assembly,
Blaise Diagne. In the 1950s,
the first French national team reaching international success with
a semi-final at the
World Cup 1958
already included many sons of immigrants such as
Raymond Kopa,
Roger
Piantoni,
Maryan Wisnieski and
Bernard Chiarelli.4 years ago, at the
1954 FIFA World Cup, there was one
player from
France overseas,
Xercès Louis, and two players from
North Africa,
Abderrahmane Mahjoub and
Abdelaziz Ben Tifour. This tradition
continued through the 1980s, when such successful players as
Michel Platini,
Jean Tigana,
Luis
Fernández,
Manuel Amoros or
Eric Cantona all had foreign-born
parents.
During the 1990s, the team was widely celebrated as an example of
the modern
multicultural
French ideal.On the 2006 French national team, 17 of the 23 players
were members of racial minorities, including many of the most
prominent players. The team featured players born in France's
overseas departments
and others who were immigrants or the children of immigrants from
former
French colonies.
Zinédine Zidane was born in
Marseille to Algerian immigrants.
Vikash
Dhorasoo — the first French player of
Indo-Mauritian origin - played in the 2006
World Cup.
Meanwhile, several players are of African and West Indian
origin. Patrick Vieira
immigrated as a child from Senegal
, Bafétimbi
Gomis has dual French-Senegalese nationality, and Claude Makélélé did likewise
from the Democratic Republic of the
Congo
. Lilian Thuram
is from France's overseas department of Guadeloupe
. Thierry Henry
is the son of parents born in Guadeloupe and Martinique
, while Louis Saha,
Sylvain Wiltord, and Pascal Chimbonda all have parents who hail
from Guadeloupe
. Florent
Malouda was born in French Guiana
. Similarly, current starlets like
Karim Benzema,
Samir
Nasri, and
Hatem Ben Arfa were
born to immigrant families from Algeria and Tunisia.
The multiracial makeup of the team has at times provoked
controversy. In recent years, critics on the far right of the
French political spectrum have taken issue with the proportional
underrepresentation of white Frenchmen on the team.
National Front politician
Jean-Marie Le Pen protested in 1998 that
the
Black, Blanc, Beur team that won
the World Cup did not look sufficiently French.
In 2002, led by
Ghanaian
-born Marcel
Desailly, the French team unanimously publicly appealed to the
French voting public to reject the presidential candidacy of Le Pen
and instead return President Jacques
Chirac to office in a landslide. In 2006, Le Pen also
resumed his criticism, charging that coach Raymond Domenech had
selected too many black players.
In 2005, French philosopher
Alain
Finkielkraut caused a controversy by remarking to the Israeli
newspaper
Haaretz that despite its earlier slogan, "the
French national team is in fact black-black-black," adding "France
is made fun of all around Europe because of that." He later excused
himself for this comment, which he declared was not meant to be
offensive.
The Zidane-Materazzi
headbutt
incident in the 2006 World Cup final and its aftermath served
as a symbol for the larger issue of Europe's struggle to integrate
its non-white immigrant population: even though both players denied
it, international media speculated for days about the presence of a
racist element in the exchange, observing that the Italian team
contained no ethnic minorities.
The national team's overall impact on France's efforts to integrate
its minorities and come to terms with its colonial past has been
mixed, however.
In 2001, France played a friendly match in
the Stade de
France
, site of its 1998 World Cup triumph, against
Algeria
. It was France's first meeting with its
former colony, with whom it had fought a
war from 1954–1962, and it proved
controversial. France's national anthem,
La Marseillaise, was booed by Algerian
supporters before the game, and following a French goal that made
the score 4–1 in the second half, spectators ran onto the field of
play and caused the game to be suspended. It was never
resumed.
Competitive record
Year |
Result |
Position |
GP |
W |
D* |
L |
GS |
GA |
1930 |
Round 1 |
7 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
3 |
1934 |
Round 1 |
9 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
1938 |
Quarterfinals |
6 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
4 |
1950 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1954 |
Round 1 |
11 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
|
1958 |
Third place |
3 |
6 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
23 |
15 |
1962 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1966 |
Round 1 |
13 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
5 |
1970 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1974 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1978 |
Round 1 |
12 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
5 |
1982 |
Fourth place |
4 |
7 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
16 |
12 |
|
1986 |
Third place |
3 |
7 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
12 |
6 |
1990 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1994 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1998 |
Champions |
1 |
7 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
15 |
2 |
2002 |
Round 1 |
28 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
|
2006 |
Final |
2 |
7 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
9 |
3 |
2010 |
Qualified |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Total |
13/19 |
1 Title |
51 |
25 |
10 |
16 |
95 |
64 |
Year |
Result |
Position |
GP |
W |
D* |
L |
GS |
GA |
1960 |
Semifinals |
4 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
7 |
1964 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1968 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1972 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1976 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1980 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1984 |
Champions |
1 |
5 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
14 |
4 |
1988 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1992 |
Round 1 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
1996 |
Semifinals |
4 |
5 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
5 |
2 |
|
2000 |
Champions |
1 |
6 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
13 |
7 |
2004 |
Quarterfinals |
5 |
4 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
7 |
5 |
2008 |
Round 1 |
15 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
6 |
Total |
7/13 |
2 Titles |
28 |
14 |
7 |
7 |
46 |
34 |
Year |
Result |
Position |
GP |
W |
D* |
L |
GS |
GA |
1997 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
1999 |
Withdrew |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
|
2001 |
Champions |
1 |
5 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
12 |
2 |
|
2003 |
Champions |
1 |
5 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
12 |
3 |
2005 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
2009 |
Did not qualify |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Total |
2/8 |
2 Titles |
10 |
9 |
0 |
1 |
24 |
5 |
- *Draws include knockout matches decided by penalty
shootout.
- **Gold background colour indicates that the tournament was
won. Red border colour indicates tournament was held on
home soil.
Manager record
Name |
Nat |
Period |
Matches |
Wins |
Draws |
Losses |
Raymond Domenech |
|
July 2004–present |
33 |
17 |
11 |
5* |
- This record does not include friendlies. Also, the World Cup
2006 penalty shoot out final is considered a draw on this
record.
Current squad
Squad for
2010 FIFA World Cup
qualification two-legged playoff match against the
Republic of
Ireland on 14 and 18 of November.
Caps and goals as of 18 November 2009, subsequent to the
2010 FIFA World Cup second leg
playoff match against the Republic of
Ireland.
Recent call-ups
Recent results
Date |
Competition |
Location |
Home Team |
Result |
Away Team |
France Scorers |
|
February 11, 2009
|
Friendly
|
Marseille , France |
France |
0 – 2
|
Argentina |
|
|
March 28, 2009
|
2010 FIFA
World Cup qualification
|
Kaunas , Lithuania |
Lithuania |
0 – 1
|
France |
Ribéry
|
|
April 1, 2009
|
2010 FIFA
World Cup qualification
|
Saint-Denis,
France |
France |
1 – 0
|
Lithuania |
Ribéry
|
|
June 2, 2009
|
Friendly
|
Saint-Étienne , France |
France |
0 – 1
|
Nigeria |
|
|
June 5, 2009
|
Friendly
|
Lyon , France |
France |
1 – 0
|
Turkey |
Benzema
|
|
August 12, 2009
|
2010 FIFA
World Cup qualification
|
Tórshavn , Faroe
Islands |
Faroe
Islands |
0 – 1
|
France |
Gignac
|
|
September 5, 2009
|
2010 FIFA
World Cup qualification
|
Saint-Denis,
France |
France |
1 – 1
|
Romania |
Henry
|
|
September 9, 2009
|
2010 FIFA
World Cup qualification
|
Belgrade , Serbia |
Serbia |
1 – 1
|
France |
Henry
|
|
October 10, 2009
|
2010 FIFA
World Cup qualification
|
Guingamp, France |
France |
5 – 0
|
Faroe
Islands |
Gignac , , Gallas , Anelka
, Benzema
|
|
October 14, 2009
|
2010 FIFA
World Cup qualification
|
Saint-Denis,
France |
France |
3 – 1
|
Austria |
Benzema , Henry , Gignac
|
|
November 14, 2009
|
2010 FIFA
World Cup qualification
|
Dublin , Ireland |
|
0 – 1
|
|
Anelka
|
|
November 18, 2009
|
2010 FIFA
World Cup qualification
|
Saint-Denis,
France |
|
1 – 1
|
|
Gallas
|
|
Forthcoming fixtures
Coaching staff
Previous squads
Players
Most capped French players
As of 18 November 2009 the ten players with the most caps for
France are:
Bold denotes players still playing or available for
selection.
Top France goalscorers
As of 18 November 2009 the highest ten goalscorers for France
are:
Bold denotes players still playing or available for
selection.
Coaches
Before 1936, players were selected by committee.
:Category:France
national football team managers
See also
References
-
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news;_ylt=AqTVVw_8ugycEjRzb0p68f0mw7YF?slug=ap-replay-henry&prov=ap&type=lgns
-
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news;_ylt=AujnDFdnHG1RZJ_5MTKBevomw7YF?slug=reu-worldfrance&prov=reuters&type=lgns
- It should be noted that Italy, historically an emigrant nation,
has a small non-European population, whereas
France has become a multiracial country due to substantial
non-European immigration, chiefly from its former colonial
empire.
External links
Titles
Friendly titles