Soccer World Cup 1982 / France

This article covers the French national team at the 1982 World Cup in Spain .

qualification

France's Europe Group 2 was the toughest qualifying group with teams like Vice World Champion Netherlands , Vice European Champion Belgium and the strong Irish . Nevertheless, France was able to qualify for the World Cup behind Belgium. The Netherlands surprisingly had to stay at home.

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Belgium	12: 09	11: 05
2	France	20: 08	10: 06
3	Ireland	17:11	10: 06
4th	Netherlands	11: 07	09: 07
5	Cyprus	04:29	00:16

Cyprus	-	France	0: 7 (0: 4)
France	-	Ireland	2: 0 (1: 0)
Netherlands	-	France	1: 0 (0: 0)
France	-	Belgium	3: 2 (3: 1)
Belgium	-	France	2: 0 (1: 0)
Ireland	-	France	3: 2 (3: 1)
France	-	Netherlands	2: 0 (0: 0)
France	-	Cyprus	4: 0 (2: 0)

French contingent

Number / name		Current club	birthday	Sp.	goal	red	yellow
goalkeeper
1	Dominique Baratelli	Paris Saint-Germain	December 26, 1947	0	0	0	0
21st	Jean Castaneda	AS Saint-Etienne	03/20/1957	1	0	0	0
22nd	Jean-Luc Ettori	AS Monaco	07/29/1955	6th	0	0	0
Defense
2	Manuel Amoros	AS Monaco	02/01/1962	5	0	0	2
3	Patrick Battiston	AS Saint-Etienne	03/12/1957	3	0	0	0
4th	Maxime Bossis	FC Nantes	06/25/1955	6th	1	0	0
5	Gérard Janvion	AS Saint-Etienne	08/21/1953	6th	0	0	0
6th	Christian Lopez	AS Saint-Etienne	03/15/1953	4th	0	0	0
7th	Philippe Mahut	FC Metz	03/04/1956	1	0	0	0
8th	Marius Trésor	Girondins Bordeaux	January 15, 1950	7th	1	0	0
midfield
9	Bernard Genghini	FC Sochaux	January 18, 1958	5	2	0	1
11	René Girard	Girondins Bordeaux	04/04/1954	5	1	0	0
12	Alain Giresse	Girondins Bordeaux	09/02/1952	6th	3	0	1
13	Jean-François Larios	AS Saint-Etienne	08/27/1956	2	0	0	0
10	Michel Platini	Juventus Turin	07/26/1953	5	2	0	0
14th	Jean Tigana	Girondins Bordeaux	06/23/1955	5	0	0	1
attack
15th	Bruno Bellone	AS Monaco	03/14/1962	1	0	0	0
16	Alain Couriol	AS Monaco	October 24, 1958	3	1	0	0
17th	Bernard Lacombe	Girondins Bordeaux	08/15/1952	3	0	0	0
18th	Dominique Rocheteau	Paris Saint-Germain	01/14/1955	4th	2	0	0
19th	Didier Six	VfB Stuttgart	09/25/1955	7th	2	0	0
20th	Gérard Soler	Girondins Bordeaux	03/29/1954	6th	1	0	1
Trainer
	Michel Hidalgo		March 22, 1933

French games at the 1982 World Cup

Preliminary round (group 4)

• France 1-3 England - Goals: 0-1 Robson (1st min.), 1: 1 Soler (25th min.), 1: 2 Robson (66th min.), 1-3 Mariner (82nd min .) .)
• France - Kuwait 4-1 - Goals: 1-0 Genghini (30th min.), 2-0 Platini (42nd min.), 3-0 Six (48th min.), 3-1 Abdullah Al Buloushi (75th min.) . Min.), 4: 1 Bossis (90. Min.)
• France 1-1 Czechoslovakia - Goals: 1-0 Six (66th min.), 1: 1 Panenka (84th minute from a penalty kick )

France qualified for the next round as second in the group behind England only because of the embarrassing 1-1 draw between Czechoslovakia and Kuwait .

Intermediate round

• France 1-0 Austria - Goal: 1-0 Genghini (39th min.)
• France 4-1 Northern Ireland goals: Giresse 1-0 (33rd min.), Rocheteau 2-0 (47th min.), Rocheteau 3-0 (63th min.), 3-1 Armstrong (75th min .) .), 4: 1 Giresse (80th min.)

Semifinals

• France - Germany 3: 3 n.v., 4: 5 i. E. - Goals: 0: 1 Littbarski (17th min.), 1: 1 Platini (26th min. By penalty kick), 2: 1 Tresor (92th min.), 3: 1 Giresse (98th min.) , 3: 2 Rummenigge (102nd min.), 3: 3 Fischer (108th min.)
  • Goals on penalties for France: Giresse, Amoros, Rocheteau, Platini
  • Goals on penalties for Germany: Kaltz , Breitner , Littbarski, Rummenigge, Hrubesch
  • Missed penalties for France: Six, Bossis
  • Missed penalties for Germany: Stielike

Third place game

• France 2-3 Poland - Goals: Girard 1-0 (13th min.), Szarmach 1-1 (41st min.), Majewski 1: 2 (44th min.), Kupcewicz 1: 3 (46th min .) .), 2: 3 Couriol (73rd min.)

Michel Hidalgo let all the players compete in the game for third place who had not yet played in this tournament. Without players like Platini, Genghini or Giresse, the team was only worth half and, above all, the disappointment of the bitter elimination in the semi-finals did the rest that the team had little to oppose against Poland . Nevertheless, fourth place was the greatest success for France since third place at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden and was the basis for winning the 1984 European Football Championship in their own country.