The World Cup Final France 1998
Sports Articles | September 20, 2013
Despite the archetype trophy being named after French football administrator, Jules Rimet, the French had not ever won the World Cup.
All that changed in 1998 through France hosting the tournament and the latest held in the Stade de France, Paris in impudence or a partisan crowd of 75,000.
After dominating European football because of more than two years, France won their primary and (to date) only World Cup put home soil and in some form. Architect of the victory was the unmatched, Zinedine Zidane who showed outstanding technique and levels of adroitness throughout the tournament.
In the decisive against Brazil, the French team came up in anticipation of the Brazilian's own maestro in the conceive of Ronaldo but on the generation he was in disarray. Afflicted through a mystery illness on the early part of the day of the match, the striker was initially withdrawn from the lot, only to be reinstalled 45 minutes judgment kick-off.
France stormed the Brazilian goal from the opposite but the crowd had to wait until the 27th minute for a Zidane header to undissembling the scoring with a typically sturdy header. With Brazil reeling, Zidane scored again in first-half injury time to boor the French two up.
Brazil tried to learn back in to the game in the forward but a clearly out of sorts Ronaldo fluffed their most wise chance leaving France to apply the coup de good-will in the final seconds as Petit scored their third part.
The French went on to set off European Champions at Euro 2000 boundary have not since reclaimed such careless heights. Can the French ever acquire the World Cup again?
