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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 ...
Football tournament FIFA World Cup final Founded 1930 ; 95 years ago (1930) Current champions Argentina (3rd title) Most successful team(s) Brazil (5 titles) The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship ...
The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th edition of the World Cup, FIFA's football competition for men's national teams, held in France between 10 June and 12 July 1998. [1] [2] The finals featured 32 teams for the first time, up from 24 in the 1994 World Cup. [3]
Group A of the 1998 FIFA World Cup was one of eight groups of four teams competing at the 1998 World Cup in France. The first matches were played on 10 June 1998 and the final games took place simultaneously on 23 June 1998. The group consisted of defending champions Brazil, Norway, Scotland and Morocco. Matches took place at six different ...
David Beckham was a huge name in soccer, and people want to know if he ever actually won a World Cup. His docuseries, 'Beckham,' breaks it down. David Beckham's 1998 World Cup Run Was Really Brutal
1998 FIFA World Cup – France wins 3–0 over Brazil in Saint-Denis, France, winning their first cup. More than one million delirious fans jammed the Champs-Élysées, dancing through the night. UEFA Champions League: Real Madrid won 1–0 in the final against Juventus. This was Real Madrid's seventh European Cup title.
The match, which is described as the "mother of all games" [2] and the "most politically charged game in World Cup history", [2] [3] ended with a 2–1 victory for Iran, the team's first ever victory in the history of the FIFA World Cup. [2] Hamid Estili and Mehdi Mahdavikia scored for Iran, while Brian McBride scored for the United States. [1]
US plays Iran on Tuesday. Winner advances out of group play