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At the edge of his last three games, all with lengths, Croatia does not know what it is to give in. Formula against Russia in the quarterfinals after conceding a goal at the end of extra time, then recovered after receiving a goal early to beat the clock. England in semifinal

As the Croatians accumulate 360 ​​minutes of play in three games played in 11 days, France adds 270 and will have an extra day of rest for the final Sunday at the stadium. Luzhniki from Moscow

When taking into account, Modric and company played one more game than the French. "You'll see who will finish tired," Modr ic said, summing up the provocative attitude of the

They also share a detail: they defeated Argentinean Lionel Me The Croats won 3-0 in the group stage, while the French won 4-3 in the round, with a double of Mbappé.

France won the European Championship at home in 1984 and then in the Netherlands in 2000. But they have not collected trophies since their current coach Didier Deschamps won the World Cup as captain on July 12, 1998 at the Stade de France.

It was the first and only time France took the throne, with a force equal to that which Deschamps directed two decades later

Zinedine Zidane, Lilian Thuram, Yuri Djorkaeff and Marcel Desailly are children of immigrants. Five months and eight days after the victory against Brazil, Mbappé was born, with a Cameroonian father and an Algerian mother. Samuel Umtiti, the central defender who scored the goal of beating Belgium in the semifinals, was born in Cameroon. His midfield duo have African roots: Pogba is the son of the Guineans and the parents of N & # 39; Golo Kanté are Malians. "It's a pure pleasure to see these players grow up and never give up," said Deschamps, who will try to emulate Mario Zagallo of Brazil and Franz Beckenbauer of Germany as the only men to win the World Cup. as players and coaches.

For France the final is the opportunity to equalize for the defeat against Portugal in Euro 2016, tournament in which he hosted. Despite the fact that Cristiano Ronaldo Luso was injured before the half hour, France lost 1-0 after conceding the goal of the unknown substitute Eder to 109 minutes.

The team that is in Russia understands "What happened two years ago was hard to equate," said goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, one of nine that will follow. "We do not want this to happen again, we want it to end well."

The 1998 World Cup was the first that Croatia contested as an independent nation, after the dissolution of Yugoslavia.

With the exception of the 2010 tournament, the following all-world Croatians were ranked, but without avoiding the group stage. His eternal debt was to equal or surpbad the performance of the 1998 semi-finalists, with Davor Suker and Robert Prosinecki among his banners.

In the semifinal played at the Stade de France, Croatia scored a goal Suker started the second half, but the Thuram double earned the hosts a 2-1 victory. They were the only goals of the defender with the national team.

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic made this semifinal when he visited his national team at his hotel in Moscow before the match against England. The French in the final, "said Plenkovic.

France is one of the traditional powers of European football, a country of 65 million inhabitants. Croatia on the other hand, has about 4 million inhabitants, the fourth smallest country of the 32 teams of Russia.

"They have raised their game level after match," said Perisic.

They now have the. opportunity to become the least populous country that is the champion since the consecration of Uruguay in 1950, when he defeated Brazil, while he had 2 million inhabitants

"We are a small country with a lot of athletes, "said defender Dejan Lovren. "In recent days, many people have been able to fix it."