The France national football team represents France in men’s international football and is controlled by the French Football Federation. They have won two FIFA World Cups, two UEFA European Championships, two FIFA Confederations Cups and one Olympic tournament. They are the reigning world champions, having won the most recent World Cup final in 2018. France plays their home matches at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, and their manager is Didier Deschamps.
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The France national football team represents France in men’s international football and is controlled by the French Football Federation. The team’s colours are blue, white and red, and the coq gaulois is its symbol. They have won two FIFA World Cups, two UEFA European Championships, two FIFA Confederations Cups and one Olympic tournament. France won the 2018 FIFA World Cup, defeating Croatia 4–2 in the final match on 15 July 2018. They are the reigning world champions, having won the most recent World Cup final in 2018. France plays their home matches at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, and their manager is Didier Deschamps. 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 two teams that have played in every World Cup cycle, the other being Brazil. In 1958, the team, led by Raymond Kopa and Just Fontaine, finished in third place at the World Cup. In 1984, France won UEFA Euro 1984 and Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics. In 2001, France was the first national team to win the three most important men’s titles recognized by FIFA: theWorld Cup, the Confederations Cup and the Olympic tournament after victory in the Confederation Cup in 2001. They, along with Germany, Italy and Uruguay, have also won their respective continental championship.
In July 1930, France appeared in their first-ever World Cup match, defeating Mexico 4–1 at the Estadio Pocitos in Montevideo. The following year saw the first selection of a black player to the national team, Raoul Diegalese, who earned his first cap in a 2–1 defeat to fellow opponents Argentina. In February 2002, France became the first team to not score in a match after losing 1–0 to Chile in the group stage of the Copa del Rey. In the same year, France defeated Uruguay 4-1 in the quarter-final of the 2014 World Cup at the Maracana in Rio de Janeiro. The match was played at the Parc des Princes in front of 500 supporters, with the only goal coming from Gaston Cyprès. France also reached the final of UEFA Euro 2016, where they lost 1-0 to Portugal in extra time. On 9 May 1908, the French Interfederal Committee ruled that FIFA would now be responsible for the club’s appearances in forthcoming Olympic Games and not the USFSA. In 1921, the FFF merged with the Fédération française de football and became the French football federation. On 21 May 1904, France contested its first official international match on 1 May 1904 against Belgium in Brussels, which ended in a 3–3 draw. The next year, on 12 February 1905, they contested their first ever home match against Switzerland, which resulted in a 1-1 draw.
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