Soccer World Cup 1966 / France

This article covers the French national team at the 1966 World Cup .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	France	09: 02	10: 02
2	Norway	10: 05	07: 05
3	Yugoslavia	10: 08	07: 05
4th	Luxembourg	06:20	00:12

Luxembourg	-	France	0: 2
France	-	Norway	1-0
Yugoslavia	-	France	1-0
Norway	-	France	0: 1
France	-	Yugoslavia	1-0
France	-	Luxembourg	4: 1

French contingent

Number / name		Association at the time	birthday	Sp.	goal	red
goalkeeper
1	Marcel Aubour	Olympique Lyon	06/17/1940	3	0	0
21st	Georges Carnus	Stade Français Paris	08/13/1942	0	0	0
22nd	Johnny Schuth	Racing Strasbourg	December 07, 1941	0	0	0
Defense
5	Bernard Bosquier	FC Sochaux	06/19/1942	3	0	0
6th	Robert Budzynski	FC Nantes	May 21, 1940	3	0	0
7th	André Chorda	Girondins Bordeaux	02/20/1938	0	0	0
11	Gabriel De Michèle	FC Nantes	03/06/1941	1	0	0
12	Jean Djorkaeff	Olympique Lyon	10/27/1939	3	0	0
midfield
2	Marcel Artelesa	AS Monaco	07/02/1938	3	0	0
4th	Joseph Bonnel	US Valenciennes	01/04/1939	3	0	0
15th	Yves Herbet	UA Sedan-Torcy	08/17/1945	2	0	0
16	Robert Herbin	AS Saint-Etienne	03/30/1939	2	0	0
17th	Lucien Muller	FC Barcelona	09/03/1934	0	0	0
18th	Jean-Claude Piumi	US Valenciennes	May 27, 1940	0	0	0
attack
3	Edmond Baraffe	Toulouse FC	October 19, 1942	0	0	0
8th	Nestor Combin	Varese FC	December 29, 1940	1	0	0
9	Didier Couécou	Girondins Bordeaux	July 25, 1944	0	0	0
10	Héctor De Bourgoing	Girondins Bordeaux	07/23/1934	1	1	0
13	Philippe Gondet	FC Nantes	05/17/1942	3	0	0
14th	Gérard Hausser	Racing Strasbourg	10/28/1941	3	1	0
19th	Laurent Robuschi	Girondins Bordeaux	05.10.1935	0	0	0
20th	Jacques Simon	FC Nantes	03/25/1941	2	0	0
Trainer
	Henri Guérin		08/27/1921

French team games

France played in Group 1 with the eventual world champions England, Uruguay and Mexico. After a weak start against Mexico, defeats against Uruguay and England followed, which meant that the French team had to return home at the end of the preliminary round in their first final after finishing third at the 1958 World Cup .

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	England	4-0	5: 1
2	Uruguay	2: 1	4: 2
3	Mexico	1: 3	2: 4
4th	France	2: 5	1: 5

France played in Group A.

France	-	Mexico	1: 1 (0: 0)
France	-	Uruguay	1: 2 (1: 2)
France	-	England	0: 2 (0: 1)

Match reports

Against Mexico on July 13th at Wembley Stadium in London in front of 69,000 spectators; SR: Ashkenasi (Israel):
Goals: 0: 1 Borja (48th), 1: 1 Hausser (61th)

Against Uruguay on July 15 at the White City Stadium in London in front of 45,000 spectators; SR: Galba (Czechoslovakia):
Goals: 1-0 De Bourgoing (16th, FE), 1: 1 Sacia (27th), 1: 2 Cortes (32nd)

Against England on July 20 at Wembley Stadium in London in front of 98,270 spectators; SR: Yamasaki (Peru):
Goals: 0-1 Hunt (38th) - 0-2 Hunt (75th)

literature

• Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6
• Olaf Edig / Daniel Meuren / Nicole Selmer: Football World Cup 1966 England. AGON, Kassel 2006 ISBN 3-89784-208-4
• Gérard Ejnès / L'Équipe: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-951-96053-0
• SZ WM library: England 1966. Munich 2005 ISBN 3-86615-155-1