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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.
Olivier Giroud (57 goals) is the all-time leading goalscorer of the national team. Michel Platini (41 goals) captained France to victory at UEFA Euro 1984. Laurent Blanc (16 goals) is the highest-scoring defender in national team history.
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.
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 .
The French Player of the Year is an association football award presented annually by the French magazine France Football since 1959. Originally, only French players playing in France were eligible, but starting in 1996 French players playing abroad were in contention to win the trophy. Since 2001, former winners have elected the Player of the ...
The following is the list of players who scored over 100 goals in French Ligue 1, during its history starting from the 1932–33 season. Roger Courtois was the first player to reach both 100 and 200 goals in Ligue 1. Hervé Revelli became the all-time top scorer in 1975–76 before Delio Onnis overtook him in 1980–81 and has held the honour ...
Overall, Benzema earned 97 caps and scored 37 goals, ranking as France's sixth-highest all-time top goalscorer, and was named French Player of the Year by France Football four times. For his performances in 2021 and 2022, Benzema was awarded the UEFA Player of the Year and the Ballon d'Or , becoming the fifth French player to have won the ...
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.