How France won the 2018 World Cup: Pragmatic Deschamps, electric Mbappe and brilliant Griezmann

We’re nearly there. Previously, we’ve looked at Uruguay in 1930, Italy in 1934 and again in 1938, Uruguay in 1950 and West Germany in 1954, before a Brazilian double in 1958 and 1962.Next came an England success in 1966, another Brazil win in 1970, a second West Germany triumph in 1974, Argentina’s first in 1978, Italy’s third in 1982, Argentina’s second in 1986, West Germany’s third in 1990 and Brazil’s fourth World Cup in 1994, before France joined the party on home soil in 1998.Advertisement