Julien Laurens explains why France's 2018 World Cup title and the resulting celebration feels more special than Les Bleus' first title in 1998. Nineteen-year-old Kylian Mbappe etched his name into football lore in Russia. Here's how the France prodigy won the FIFA World Cup Best Young Player award. Former France international Robert Pires said his country mirrored the spirit they showed in 1998 during their World Cup winning campaign. The ESPN FC team answer your tweets on Kylian Mbappe's stock at PSG, the 2018 France squad vs. the 1998 World Cup winning side and much more. PARIS -- Trevor Noah, the South African host of a popular U.S. TV show, sparred with the French ambassador in Washington after the comedian joked that Africa, not France, won the World Cup. The victory of a multicultural French team against Croatia in Sunday's final in Moscow has reverberated across the globe, being celebrated in France and other places as a triumph for diversity, while it has fanned racist abuse in some corners. "Africa won the World Cup," Noah, host of The Daily Show, said in...from ESPN FC News https://ift.tt/2msUdEJ
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