FIFA Confederations Cup 2001 / France
This article deals with the French national football team at the Confederations Cup 2001 (officially FIFA Confederations Cup 2001 ™, also known as Confederations Cup for short), which was held in Japan and South Korea - as a sporting and organizational dress rehearsal for the World Cup finals there one year later .
The French team was qualified as the reigning European champion - at the same time they were also reigning world champion.
Contingent
The French (les Bleus) had called up the following players for this tournament:
| Number / name | Association at the time | birthday | Games | Gates | References | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| goal | ||||||
| 1 | Ulrich Ramé | Girondins Bordeaux | 09/19/1972 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Grégory Coupet | Olympique Lyon | December 31, 1972 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Mickaël Landreau | FC Nantes | 05/14/1979 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Defense | ||||||
| 2 | Willy Sagnol | Bayern Munich | 03/18/1977 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Bixente Lizarazu | Bayern Munich | December 9, 1969 | 4th | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Nicolas Gillet | FC Nantes | 11/08/1976 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 8th | Marcel Desailly | Chelsea FC | 07.09.1968 | 4th | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | Mikaël Silvestre | Manchester United | 08/09/1977 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 15th | Jérémie Bréchet | Olympique Lyon | 08/14/1979 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 18th | Frank Lebœuf | Chelsea FC | 01/22/1968 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| 20th | Zoumana Camara | Olympique Marseille | 04/03/1979 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| midfield | ||||||
| 4th | Patrick Vieira | Arsenal FC | 06/23/1976 | 4th | 2 | 0 |
| 6th | Youri Djorkaeff | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 03/09/1968 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 7th | Robert Pires | Arsenal FC | 11/29/1973 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 10 | Eric Carrière | FC Nantes | May 24, 1973 | 4th | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | Olivier Dacourt | Leeds United | 09/25/1974 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 19th | Christian Karembeu | Middlesbrough FC | December 3rd, 1970 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 22nd | Laurent Robert | Paris Saint-Germain | 05/21/1975 | 4th | 0 | 0 |
| attack | ||||||
| 9 | Nicolas Anelka | Paris Saint-Germain | 03/14/1979 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | Sylvain Wiltord | Arsenal FC | 05/10/1974 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 14th | Frédéric Née | SC Bastia | 04/18/1975 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 17th | Steve Marlet | Olympique Lyon | 01/10/1974 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 21st | Christophe Dugarry | Girondins Bordeaux | March 24, 1972 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Trainer | ||||||
| Roger Lemerre | 06/18/1941 | |||||
Course of the tournament
The French team started the tournament with matches against co-hosts South Korea (5-0), Australia (0-1) and defending champions Mexico (4-0) and finished Group A first. For the game against Australia - which ended with the only tournament defeat - coach Lemerre had completely rebuilt the team compared to the opening game: at the kick-off there was not a single player on the field who had also played against South Korea in the starting lineup. In addition, Frank Lebœuf was sent off after a yellow-red card. For Nicolas Gillet, Zoumana Camara and Frédéric Née, this was the only international match of their careers. Nevertheless, France reached the semi-finals, in which a 2-1 win against Brazil ensured their place in the final.
In it, the Bleus met the second host, Japan ; an early goal, scored by Patrick Vieira, already meant the final score and at the same time the win of the Confederations Cup. This made France the first national football team to hold world and continental championship titles as well as the Confederation Cup.