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Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Sweden, the Netherlands and Croatia have played in the final without winning. Only teams from Europe and South America have ever competed in the final. Argentina defeated France on penalties in the latest final, staged at Qatar's Lusail Stadium in 2022.
Oct 13, 2013 · Finals Squad. The squad was the product of a rather protracted winnowing process. FIFA required that each national side provide a list of forty players before the end of May 1966 and a final squad of 22 players by July 3, eight days before the tournament began. Alf Ramsey named his provisional list of forty players on April 7, almost two months ...
France's win was their first World Cup title, becoming the seventh out of – as of 2022 – eight different countries to win the tournament. They also became the sixth team to win the competition as hosts and the first since Argentina in 1978 .
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Jun 8, 2018 · The man leading the current French national team is Didier Deschamps, who captained the World Cup-winning 1998 squad.
The win gave France their first World Cup title, becoming the sixth national team after Uruguay, Italy, England, West Germany and Argentina to win the tournament on their home soil. They also inflicted the second-heaviest World Cup defeat on Brazil, [32] later to be topped by Brazil's 7–1 defeat by Germany in the semi-finals of the 2014 FIFA ...
Oct 21, 2023 · England beat West Germany to win the 1966 World Cup at Wembley Stadium, with the starting XI from the tournament becoming instant icons.
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Top Scorer: Davor Suker . Winning coach: Aimé Jacquet. World Cup winner. Titles and success. Record winner. Victory coaches. This is an overview of all title holders of the competition World Cup 1998 in chronological order. It also shows record winners and champion managers.