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Olivier Giroud (137 caps, 57 goals) is the national team's all-time leading goalscorer. Michel Platini (72 caps, 41 goals) captained France to victory at UEFA Euro 1984. Playmaker Zinedine Zidane (108 caps, 31 goals) is the seventh most capped French footballer of all time and captained France to the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final.
Pélé chose him to be part of the 100 best soccer players in the world. 1983: Michel Platini (soccer) Michel François Platini is a French former football player, manager and administrator. Nicknamed “Le Roi” (the king) for his ability and leadership, he is regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time.
This category contains past and present players of the senior France national football team (but not players who have only been capped at Olympic, Under-21 or other junior levels). Players in this category should also be left in category:French men's footballers.
Olympique Lyonnais is a French professional association football club based in Lyon, Rhône-Alpes, playing in Ligue 1, the top level of the French football league system, as of the 2010–11 season. The club was formed in 1899 as the football section of sports club Lyon Olympique Universitaire. In 1950, the section split from the club and ...
Pages in category "French men's footballers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 6,811 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
French men's footballers (10 C, 6,811 P) French women's footballers (5 C, 353 P) + French expatriate footballers (8 C, 1 P) F. French LGBTQ footballers (6 P) O.
Under the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) governing body, Allemane is the only French player to wear the armband in all of his national team appearances. [8] Aside from Canelle and Allemane, Gaston Barreau , René Bonnet , Étienne Jourde , and Robert Lemaître are the only other players to ever captain the national ...
Fontaine was named by Pelé as one of the 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004. He was chosen as the best French player of the last 50 years by the French Football Federation in the UEFA Jubilee Awards in November 2003. [11] With Eugène N'Jo Léa he founded the National Union of Professional Football Players in 1961.