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The France Nationwide Football Group (French: Équipe de France de soccer) represents France in men's international football and is controlled through the French Football Federation, also known as the FFF, or in French: Fédération française de soccer. The shades of the group are blue, white, and red, and coq gaulois is its symbol. France is colloquially called Les Bleus (Blues). They are the reigning international champions, having received the maximum current World Championship in 2018.

France plays their home matches at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, Ile-de-France, and is managed by Didier Deschamps. They have won the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA European Championship, two FIFA Confederations Cups, and one Olympic tournament. France experienced tons of its performance in four major eras: the fifties, the 1980s, the overdue 1990s/early 2000s, and the mid/overdue 2010s, respectively, leading to the severa Primary awards. France became one of the 4 European teams that participated in the first World Cup in 1930, and despite being eliminated from qualifying six times, is considered one of the two most effective groups that have played in each World Cup cycle, the alternative being Brazil.

In 1958, the team, led by Raymond Copa and Just Fontaine, finished in the 0.33 zone at the FIFA World Cup. In 1984, France, led by the Golden Ball winner Michel Platini, won Euro 1984. However, France has best started to reach its peak since the nineties, with the creation of INF Clairefontaine. Under the leadership of captain Didier Deschamps and three-time FIFA World Cup champion of the year Zinedine Zidane, France won the FIFA World Cup in 1998. Two years later, the team won Euro 2000. France won the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2001 and 2003, and in 2006 reached the FIFA World Cup, which it conceded 5-three on penalties to Italy. In addition, the team reached the most recent Euro 2016 match, where they lost 1-0 to Portugal in extra time. France won the 2018 FIFA World Cup by defeating Croatia 4-2 in the most recent form on 15 July 2018. This turned into the second time they won the tournament after winning on home soil in 1998.

France became the first team across the country to win the three most important titles recognized by FIFA: the World Cup, the Confederations Cup, and the Olympic competitions after winning the Confederations Cup in 2001. The now-defunct Confederations Cup started in 1992. Before that, Uruguay and Italy won both the Olympic match and the World Cup in the twenties and thirties. England and Germany also won both tournaments; although England competes as Great Britain in the Olympics, and East Germany received an Olympic event in 1976. Since 2001, Argentina (after the 2004 Olympics) and Brazil (after the 2016 Olympics) are the two opposing national groups that have won these three titles. They, on the side of Germany, Italy, and Uruguay, additionally received their respective continental championship (Copa America for Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay and the UEFA European Championship for France, Germany, and Italy).

Home Stadium

In the early years of France, the team's national stadium alternated with the Parc des Princes in Paris and the Olympic Stadium Yves du Manor in Colombes. France also hosted matches at the Stade Pershing, Stade de Paris, and Stade Buffalo, but to a minimal degree. Over the years, France has started hosting matches outside of the capital Paris at venues such as the Stade Marcel Supin in Nantes, the Stade Velodrome in Marseille, the Stade Guerlain in Lyon, and the Stade L. A. Meynau in Strasbourg.

After the protection of the Parc des, Princes in 1972, which gave the stadium the largest capacity in Paris, France completely moved to this place. Nevertheless, the team played pleasant matches and small qualification matches of the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Football Championship at different venues. France has twice played home matches in the French overseas branch – in 2005 in Costa Rica in Fort-de-France (Martinique) and in 2010 in the confrontation with China in Saint-Pierre (Reunion). Both suits were comradely.

In 1998, the Stade de France was opened as the national stadium of France in the run-up to the 1998 World Cup. Located in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris, the stadium holds 81,338 people. The first match of the French national team at the stadium took place on January 28, 1998, against the Spanish national team. France won 1-0, with Zinedine Zidane scoring the only goal. Since then, France has used the stadium for almost every important home celebration, including the 1998 World Cup final.

Before the match, at home or away, the national team trains at the INF Clairefontaine Academy in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines. Clairefontaine is a national soccer center across the country and is one of the 12 elite academies in the United States.  The center was opened in 1976 by former FFF President Fernand Sastre and opened in 1988. The center attracted media attention after it was used as a base camp by the team that won the 1998 World Cup.

In the 20th and 23rd minutes of an international friendly match on 13 November 2015 against Germany, three groups of terrorists tried to detonate vests with bombs at three entrances to the Stade de France, and explosions occurred. The game could be saved until the 94th minute so that the group would not panic. Consequently, the stadium was evacuated through an unaffected stadium gate away from the players ' benches. Because of the blocked exits, the spectators who could not leave the stadium had to go down to the field and wait until it was safer.

Kits and crest

The French national team, which played its first international match against Belgium in 1904, wore a white blouse with a jewelry brand

The national group of France uses a gadget of 3 shades, consisting of blue, white, and purple. The 3 colors of the group are derived from the national flag of France, called the tricolor. However, France's first blouse (as seen in their first reliable world match against Belgium in 1904) became white, with two interlocking jewelry emblems of the USFSA-the body that controlled the game in France with the then-left.

France usually wears blue shirts, white shorts, and crimson socks at home (comparable to Japan), while on the street the team uses an all-white blend or wears pink shirts, blue shorts, and blue socks, the former being as modern as possible. Between 1909 and 1914, France wore a white shirt with blue stripes, white shorts, and crimson socks. In the 1978 World Cup match against Hungary in Mar del Plata, both teams arrived at the Jose Maria Minella Stadium with white kits, so France played in inexperienced white-striped shirts borrowed from the club, Atletico Kimberley.

French blouse Zinedine Zidane wide variety 10 home, made through Adidas

Starting in 1966, in France until 1971, shirts were produced using Le Coq Sportif. In 1972, France reached an agreement with the German sportswear manufacturer Adidas to become a kit supplier for the group. For the next 38 years, 2 can maintain a healthy relationship with France winning Euro 1984, the 1998 World Cup, and Euro 2000, even in the form of the well-known Adidas tricolor stripes. During the 2006 World Cup, France wore an all-white alternate stripe in all four of their knockouts, as well as in the most recent one.[69] On February 22, 2008, FFF announced that they were ending their partnership with Adidas and signing a contract with Nike, effective January 1, 2011. The extraordinary seven-year deal (from January 1, 2011, to July 9, 2018) cost 320 million euros, making the blue shirt of France the most expensive in the history of football.

Nike products in France at the exhibition for Euro 2016

France's first package to be worn in a first-class match produced with the help of Nike was the Euro 2012 strip, which went dark blue and used gold as an accent shade. In February 2013, Nike revealed an all-blue replacement stripe.

Ahead of Euro 2016 in France, Nike has unveiled a new, unconventional set: blue shirts and shorts with crimson socks at home, white shirts, and shorts and with blue socks away. The away shirt, which was worn in friendly matches before the Euro and shown to the public, additionally had one blue sleeve and one pink sleeve in connection with the"tricolor". However, due to UEFA policy, France was forced to wear a modified model with almost unsaturated sleeve colors in the Euro 2016 group stage match against Switzerland, which continued to be worn at some stage of the 2018 World Cup qualification.