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2018 FIFA World Cup

As you already may have known, the France National Football Team has won the world cup. They played excellently and won all the matches except for one that they drew:

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France win!

  • France 2 - 1 Australia
  • France 1 - 0 Peru
  • France 0 - 0 Denmark
  • France 4 - 3 Argentina
  • France 2 - 0 Uruguay
  • France 1 - 0 Belgium
  • France 4 - 2 Croatia
They played an amazing match with Croatia and got the trophy! Do you know how? Let's see the top players in the France National Football Team:


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Mbappe
  • Mbappe - He also plays for PSG and is one of the best players in this team only being 19 years old.
  • Griezmann - He plays for Athletico Madrid and is also a great player.
  • Pavard - He scored a brilliant goal against Argentina
  • Lloris - The goalkeeper who plays for Tottenham Hotspur and the captain for France.
  • Pogba - He plays for Manchester United and is a great long- shooter
  • Giroud - He plays for Chelsea as a striker
  • Kante - He also plays for Chelsea and takes great free kicks
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Lloris
Now, we know about this, lets talk about the World Cup.

After another four years, FIFA ( Federation Internationale de Football Association) had another World Cup, the last one in 2014 hosted in Brazil with Germany as the winners.
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Russia 2018

The FIFA World Cup is a men's football event that takes place every four years with 32 teams selected. This was the 21st FIFA World Cup.

The World Cup this year had been held in different stadiums in Russia. It took about $14.2 billion, making it the most expensive World Cup in FIFA history. This was also the first World Cup where VAR (Video Assistant Referee) was being used and second where there was the use of Goal Line Technology.

The stadiums were in different cities like Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, etc. The World Cup Finals were held in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow. The World Cup started on the 14th of June and ended on the 15th of July.

Isn't the World Cup so cool! So, how about some crazy moments in the World Cup?

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German player sad
1. South Korea beat Germany 2-0
Isn't it just crazy that South Korea won against Germany! German fans were heart broken as they got out of the World Cup.

2. Italy didn't get selected for World Cup
Italy, being a World Cup winner 4 times didn't get selected just because that Sweden beat them in the qualifiers.

3. Belgium beat Brazil 2-1
Can you believe it? All the Brazilian fans out there were in tears. It could have been a 6th World Cup win for them!
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Ronaldo scores a hat trick

4. Croatia made it to the Finals
For the first time ever, Croatia had made it to the finals. Last time they got eliminated in the Round of 16 and never played in the World Cup before that.

5. Ronaldo scored a hat-trick against Spain
Ronaldo for the first time in history, scored a hat-trick against Spain where the final score was 3-3. No one has ever scored a hat-trick against Spain before.


6. Croatia beat Argentina 3-0
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Messi penalty saved
Argentina had to change their goalkeeper for a mistake that he did! Argentina were in really stressed out moments.

7. Messi and Ronaldo both miss a penalty at the World Cup
Messi against Iceland and Ronaldo against Iran, missed a penalty each which was saved by the goalkeeper

8. Neymar did a fake dive at the World Cup 
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Neymar diving
Neymar dived all by himself inside the penalty box of Costa Rica as if he was being pushed. VAR said no foul. Everyone makes fun of him now after the World Cup.

9. England beat Panama 6-1
Seriously, how was this possible? Harry Kane got 3.

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Comments

  1. Srividhya Venkat12 August 2018 at 04:52

    Nice to read and recap those interesting moments from FIFA 2018. Especially liked the crazy moments.

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    panama scored their first goal in a world cup

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