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And France have easily one of the best teams, with lots of very talented youngsters waiting for a chance to prove themselves. Even with multiple injured highly
by sofixa 4y ago
And France have easily one of the best teams, with lots of very talented youngsters waiting for a chance to prove themselves. Even with multiple injured highly important players that would have otherwise started (Pogba, Kanté, L. Hernandez, Benzema, Nkunku to an extent) they got to the final. For every player retiring (Benzema, probably Giroud and Lloris) there are younger players ready to step in, all the way down to the youth teams. And this is at every position, unlike most other teams like Brazil, Argentina, Germany, Spain that have obvious gaps in at least one position. The only other ones that come close in terms of all roundness of talent are England.
France will be a menace for at least the next decade.
- quetzthecoatl 4y agowhile france does have a great squad, this sort of prediction goes against world cup history. Hardly ever the favorites win the world cup. In fact, imo the last time the favorites won the world cup was in 2002.
- thiagocmoraes 4y agoThink most Brazilians would disagree Brazil was favorite in 2002. It was a very messy campaign before getting to the world cup.
- quetzthecoatl 4y agoyes the campaign wasn't so good, and the copa before that was disastrous for brazil, but brazil were still the favorites. They had ronaldo, rivaldo, roberto carlos, cafu, kaka, ronaldinho, lucio, juninho in their line up. Granted Ronaldinho and Kaka were yet to hit their peak, but they were the team. If not for injuries and partying, even romario would have been there.
- peruvian 4y agoStacked teams go home early all the time in WCs. France getting to the final again is an exception. France went home early to Switzerland on penalties last year at the Euros (Mbappe missed a penalty!). That could happen again in 2026.