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FRANCE Nickname: Les Bleu Captain: Hugo Lloris Key Player: Kylian Mbappe Coach: Didier Deschamps Last World Cup Appearance: 2018 (Winners) France is one of the biggest football nations in the world. They are the current holders of the World Cup, winning it for the second time in Russia. The team from 2018 matched the famous 1998 generation, who won the World Cup in France, where the likes of Zinedine Zidane, Marcel Desailly, Patrick Vieira, Didier Deschamps and Thierry Henry became national icons. It was a trajectory that many saw, reaching the final of the 2016 Euros on home soil, but they lost to Portugal. In the last European Championships in 2021, France was one of the favourites but suffered elimination very early, losing to Switzerland on penalties. They qualified for the final without...