Football World Cup 2006 / France

This article covers the French national team at the 2006 World Cup in Germany .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	France	14: 02	20th
2	Switzerland	18: 07	18th
3	Israel	15:10	18th
4th	Ireland	12: 05	17th
5	Cyprus	08:20	04th
6th	Faroe Islands	04:27	01

	France - Israel		0-0
	Faroe Islands - France		0: 2 (0: 1)
	0: 1 Giuly (32nd), 0: 2 Cissé (73rd)
	France - Ireland		0-0
	Cyprus - France		0: 2 (0: 1)
	0: 1 Wiltord (38th), 0: 2 Henry (72nd)
	France - Switzerland		0-0
	Israel - France		1: 1 (0: 0)
	0: 1 Trezeguet (50th), 1: 1 Badir (83rd)
	France - Faroe Islands		3: 0 (2: 0)
	1-0 Cissé (14th), 2-0 Olsen (18./ET), 3-0 Cissé (76th)
	Ireland - France		0: 1 (0: 0)
	0: 1 Henry (68th)
	Switzerland - France		1: 1 (0: 0)
	0: 1 Cissé (53rd), 1: 1 Magnin (80th)
	France - Cyprus		4: 0 (3: 0)
	1-0 Zidane (29th), 2-0 Wiltord (32nd), 3-0 Dhorasoo (44th), 4-0 Giuly (84th)

Contingent

No.	Surname	Club at the beginning of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
16	Fabien Barthez	Olympique Marseille	06/28/1971	7th	0	0	0	0
23	Grégory Coupet	Olympique Lyon	December 31, 1972	0	0	0	0	0
01	Mickaël Landreau	FC Nantes	05/14/1979	0	0	0	0	0
defender
03	Eric Abidal	Olympique Lyon	09/11/1979	6th	0	2 *	0	0
02	Jean-Alain Boumsong	Newcastle United	December 14, 1979	0	0	0	0	0
21st	Pascal Chimbonda	Wigan Athletic	02/21/1979	0	0	0	0	0
05	William Gallas	Chelsea FC	08/17/1977	7th	0	0	0	0
17th	Gaël Givet	AS Monaco	10/09/1981	0	0	0	0	0
19th	Willy Sagnol	FC Bayern Munich	03/18/1977	7th	0	1 * / 2	0	0
13	Mickaël Silvestre	Manchester United	08/09/1977	1	0	0	0	0
15th	Lilian Thuram	Juventus Turin	01/01/1972	7th	0	1	0	0
midfield player
08th	Vikash Dhorasoo	Paris Saint-Germain	10/10/1973	2	0	0	0	0
18th	Alou Diarra	RC Lens	07/15/1981	2	0	0	0	0
06th	Claude Makélélé	Chelsea FC	02/18/1973	7th	0	1 * / 1	0	0
07th	Florent Malouda	Olympique Lyon	06/13/1980	6th	0	1	0	0
22nd	Franck Ribery	Olympique Marseille	04/07/1983	7th	1	1	0	0
04th	Patrick Vieira	Juventus Turin	06/23/1976	7th	2	1	0	0
10	Zinedine Zidane	real Madrid	06/23/1972	6th	3	2 * / 1	0	1
striker
09	Sidney Govou (1)	Olympique Lyon	07/27/1979	4th	0	0	0	0
12	Thierry Henry	Arsenal FC	08/17/1977	7th	3	0	0	0
14th	Louis Saha	Manchester United	08/08/1978	3	0	2	0	0
20th	David Trezeguet	Juventus Turin	10/15/1977	3	0	0	0	0
11	Sylvain Wiltord	Olympique Lyon	05/10/1974	7th	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Raymond Domenech		01/24/1952

⁽¹⁾ Sidney Govou was nominated for Djibril Cissé , who suffered a broken tibia and fibula after being nominated for the World Cup in a friendly against China on June 7, 2006.
* Yellow cards from the preliminary round, which will be ignored from the round of 16.

Crew quarters

The team had their quarters in Aerzen in the Schlosshotel Münchhausen. The training grounds were on site and in Hameln .

Games of France

Preliminary round

• Tuesday, June 13, 2006, 6 p.m. in Stuttgart, France - Switzerland 0-0
  
• Sun, June 18, 2006, 9 p.m. in Leipzig France - South Korea 1: 1 (1: 0)
  
• Fri, June 23, 2006, 9 p.m. in Cologne Togo - France 0: 2 (0: 0)
  

For details see Soccer World Cup 2006 / Group G

Round of 16

• Tuesday, June 27, 2006, 9 p.m. in Hanover, Spain - France 1: 3 (1: 1)
  

Quarter finals

• Saturday, July 1, 2006, 9 p.m. in Frankfurt Brazil - France 0: 1 (0: 0)
  

Semifinals

• Wednesday, July 5, 2006, 9 p.m. in Munich Portugal - France 0: 1 (0: 1)
  

final

• Sunday, July 9, 2006, 8 p.m. in Berlin Italy - France 1: 1 a.d. (1: 1, 1: 1), 5: 3 i. E.
  

For details see Football World Cup 2006 / final round

Conclusion

With the runner-up World Cup, France achieved more than the local specialist press ( l'Équipe , France Football ) had given it credit for before the tournament began; As the tournament progressed, the initially harsh criticism (among other things because of the high average age of the team, which was the oldest of the 32 participants) of the Domenech sélectionneur waned and gave way to broad approval. The fact that - despite his assault in the final - Zinédine Zidane was awarded the Golden Ball as the best player in the World Cup, the Équipe tricolore was also able to record on the credit side. In addition, goalkeeper Barthez set the record for Peter Shilton in the semi-finals , who became the first goalkeeper to play 10 World Cup games without conceding a goal.