France Football Formation

Lineup (4-1-4-1)

Fabien Barthez · Frank Leboeuf · Marcel Desailly · Bixente Lizarazu · Lilian Thuram · Didier Deschamps (c) · Christian Karembeu · Emmanuel Petit · Zinedine Zidane · Youri Djorkaeff · Stéphane Guivarc'h

France World Cup winning team (1998)

Substitutes : Alain Boghossian, Christophe Dugarry, Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry

Zinedine Zidane showed his brilliance, as Brazil and Ronaldo wilted down mysteriously. Who knows what would have it been, had Ronaldo been fit? But, the result in the end was that an outstanding generation of players from France beaten the most fancied team on the planet. France defeated the defending champions Brazil to lift the World Cup, and the world witnessed the greatest playmaker of the modern generation in action, as Zidane scored two in a 3-0 victory.