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Sunday, July 15, in Moscow, France and Croatia will define the next world champion
EL TIEMPO tells you interesting facts about the two finalists of the 2018 World Cup.
] – France played 15 World Cups of 21 and its historical position is fifth.
– Croatia played 5 World Cups of 21 and its historical position is 22.
– France played two finals last: won 1 (France 1998, 3-0 against Brazil) and lost 1 (Germany 2006, 1-1 and 5-3 on penalties against Italy).
– Croatia has never played World Cup Final
France won the 2018 Russian semi-finals in Belgium (1-0).
– In 5 World Cups, France finished in the top 4: (France 1998), once second (Germany 2006), twice third (Sweden 1958 and Mexico 1986) and fourth (Spain 1982). [19659005] – Only in a World Cup, Croatia finished in the top four: finished third (France 1998).
– Croatia and France met once in the World Cups. He was in a semifinal of France 1998, with the triumph "Gallo" 2-1.
– In this 1998 French team was Didier Deschamps, current DT of the national team.
– In the Croatian team that fell Davor Suker, current president of the Croatian Football Federation in 1998, was in the semi-finals in 1998.
– France and Croatia reach the undefeated final in Moscow: the French won 5 matches and 1 The Croats won 4 and 2, in which they won on penalties.
Croatia defeated England in the semi-finals (2-1).
– It will be the number 11 final two national teams that reach this match without losing any match
– This will be the ninth time in 21 World Cups that the final will be between two European teams [19659002] – Croatia became the first national team to reach the finals of a World Cup after playing three more times and having two definitions per penalty: eighth, quarter and semi-final. The first two with definition from the white point.
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