France 1998 World Cup Team

The 1998 FIFA World Cup was held in one of the most renowned countries in Europe: France.  In this championship, there were 32 different teams disputing the first position, and in this way, become the 1998 World Cup champions.  However, at the very beginning, the world cup relied on 174 entrants willing to play too.  In general, 64 matches were played and 171 goals were scored.  In other words, in each match, 2.672 goals were scored as an average.  In addition, throughout the entire championship, there was an attendance of 2,785,100 spectators, meaning that there were 43,517 spectators per match.

In particular, in the 1998 World Cup the host and the champion refer to the very same team: France, which is a phenomenon common to happen.  As part of the four countries playing in the group C, France obtained 9 points, becoming the top scorer.  On June 12, France played versus South Africa in a match that ended 3-0 in favor of France.  Six days later, it was Saudi Arabia’s turn to play against France.  In this match, France won 4-0 over its opponent.

On June 24, Denmark and France starred a match, in which, with one-goal difference, France won over Denmark, who scored one goal.  Hence, in the round of 16, the match between France and Paraguay ended 1-0, in favor of the European team.  In the quarter-finals, the match between France and Italy ended in a draw (0-0); however, France won with 4 penalty shootouts.  In the semi-finals match on July 8, France defeated Croatia 2-1, and the final match was starred by France and Brazil, in which the South American country lost 3-0.