The French national team is the current world champion and to stir up the bets on football, it is very strong and prepared for the World Cup. They are called “Le Bleus” by the French fans.
In addition to being the current champions of the Cup, they are also the current champions of the UEFA Nations League, which they won respectively in 2018 and 2020. See the chances of the French team being champion.
What are the chances?
Being one of the favorites for the title, the French federation that currently occupies the 3rd place in the ranking of FIFA selections, brings with it a team that has been playing for a long time, and is well integrated on the field.
The French team has players who are world football stars like Kylian Mbappé, Paul Pogba and Antoine Griezmann who were the golden trio of the French in 2018 and who now have a strong reinforcement. But is all this power enough to win the second consecutive World Cup? See now.
2018 squad and the current squad of the French national team
The team has remained 100% for 4 years. The champion squad is a difficult task for any team, because only the best are in the team. And some players, like any human being, are fickle: sometimes they're fine, sometimes they're not.
Which makes rotation in the team inevitable. But even with changes in the squad, the Gallic team managed to maintain, during the qualifying period, 60% of the champion squad in 2018.
The team has its base practically all maintained and well assembled and the French coach Deschamps still sees the biggest star of the current selection, Kylian Mbappé, who is consolidating himself as a world star every day. The star, like many other new players from the past squad, has been rocking this Cup with something he still lacked in 2018: experience.
It stood out for being a young team in 2018, with an average age of 25.5 years, lower than that of Brazil, which was already quite low. With that, the young French team, world champion in 2018, returns even more mature for the 2022 World Cup.
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the trio of stars
In 2018, the French team was a complete show, but there were 3 players who stood out and were very important in conquering the world. Being Griezmann, Pogba and Mbappé, who were the stars of the French team in 2018, being very important in decisive games like in the quarterfinals against Argentina, in the Semi against Belgium and in the final against Croatia.
Now that trio has gained a weight reinforcement that, in addition to being very experienced, has been among the best in European and world football for a long time. Karim Benzema, star of Real Madrid and multi-champion in his career, returned to the French national team after almost 6 years away. The player, until last year, had not played with several of the current athletes of the French team, but he arrived to add a lot to the team.
Possibility of being two-time champions consecutively?
Being champion of the World Cup is already an arduous task, now being champion twice in a row is something very difficult to happen. In 20 editions of the World Cup, only two teams have won two consecutive titles, being two-time champions. The first was Italy, which won the 1934 Cup, at home, and the 1838 Cup, in France.
Vittorio Pozzo was coach on both occasions and is still the only professional to win two consecutive titles. The other selection is Brazil, which was champion in 1958, in Sweden, and in 1962, in Chile. Now, in 2022, the French team has the chance to be champions in a row, but the path will not be easy. We wish that everything goes well.
