Didier Deschamps lifted the trophy in Paris as the team's captain when France first won the World Cup in 1998. He won it as coach in 2018, and now he is on the brink of getting a third.
France is playing in a fourth final in a span of seven tournaments — including the 2006 final lost to Italy in a penalty shootout after. It's a dynastic era not seen since Brazil’s two decades at the top through 1970.
Morocco’s coach was quick to anoint France and Mbappé after they ended his team’s historic run as the first African team in a semifinal. All six goals for a 17-year-old Pelé in 1958 in Sweden were scored after the group stage, including a semifinals hat-trick to help eliminate France as he wore the No. 10 jersey that he has made iconic.4-3 epic in the round of 16Mbappé has five goals so far in Qatar, tied as the leading scorer at the tournament with Messi. The Frenchman scored four times in 2018.
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