France’s national team will look to win in their home country of Qatar and end a curse that has been around since Chile 62′. This is a major challenge for the team, not only to win but to keep their title as well. For eight years in a row, no team has even won the World Cup on our home turf. It’s been four years since then, and ever since that defeat, no one on the French team has come close to winning the cup.
The men led by Didier Deschamps have advanced very firmly. In fact, they broke the first rule of the curse by overcoming the group stage despite the trip to Tunisia. And it’s that in the last three World Cups, each previous champion has had trouble getting past the first phase of the tournament.
Once the pass was achieved, France’s elite team showed their great state of form by beating Poland. With three games left for the French National Team to join the select club of teams that repeated their triumph and Germany is on their heels, Italy being the most recent champion in 1934 and 1938.
France came to this World Cup with a talented team like always. What really caught the eye when their game was the fact that tensions were so high between the players from what it usually is on the field. But in the end, ‘Les Bleus’ won, and that’s more than enough to change predictions made just before France smashed England into dust.
On Saturday, France takes on England. Both teams are looking to secure a place among the four best nations on the planet. The path of the Gauls is not long, but it’s complicated because if they win the game against the second-place team in Europe, they could face Spain or Portugal in the semifinals.