6 countries who have won the World Cup on home soil

Modified Jul 04, 2018 14:36 GMT

Many teams over the years have took advantage of being World Cup hosts — Many teams over the years have taken advantage of being World Cup hosts

#1 France

Zinidine Zidane put Frnace on the map back in 1998 — Zinedine Zidane put France on the map back in 1998

The most recent team to lift the World Cup trophy in their home country was France back in 1998 when they incredibly managed to defeat Brazil at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France.

Brazil had already won four World Cup finals at this point whilst France were yet to etch their names on the famous trophy. Brazil won the 1994 World Cup and were the defending Champions and easily considered to be the favourites with a fantastic team that had been tearing apart defences throughout the summer.

The most shocking part of this final is how one-sided it actually was, there weren't many fans who would have expected France to score three without reply against Brazil, but that's the feat that Aimé Jacquet's side achieved.

With all the pre-match build surrounding the condition of Ronaldo who had been Brazil's stand out star throughout the tournament, France were able to sneak under the radar and two goals from man of the match Zinedine Zidane and one from Emmanuel Petit gave the French their first and only World Cup victory.

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Edited by Amar Anand