In the top 8 match of the World Cup, France eliminated England 2-1, broke into the top 4 for 2 consecutive times, and hoped to complete the first defending title in team history. After the game, the whole team celebrated crazily in the locker room. Players jumped onto the table to dance and celebrate. Some players picked up trash cans to revel, which lasted for several minutes. The locker room seemed to become "a sea of joy".
After the carnival, the whole team took a group photo. As a result, this picture also became popular, because the fans thought it was an African team after seeing it. There are 14 of the 22 players with black skin, including Joan Ame Ni, Dembele, Koman, Kamavinga, Yusuf Fofana, Conde, Konate, Disassi, etc., if you remove the team badge and jersey, you can't see where they are. An African team.
won the last World Cup, and France has been regarded as the African United team by the outside world. The fathers or mothers of these players are from many African countries. For example, Mbappe’s father is Cameroon , and Dembele has Senegal blood, Kimpembe 's father who missed the World Cup is from the Congo, Matuidi's father is from Angola, and Kanter's parents are both from Mali.
According to statistics, black players accounted for more than half of France's 26-man final list for this World Cup, which is also the highest among the 13 teams in Europe, and the proportion is also higher than that of the 2018 World Cup.
In recent years, major French clubs have gone to African countries to recruit talents, so the proportion of black players in French national teams has increased year by year, completing the trend of becoming African, and their strength is constantly increasing, because European football has technical advantages, and black players Players have strong impact and endurance, and the combination of the two has made France's strength in the world in recent years.
The current French team is less and less like the traditional "French team". Maybe after two more World Cups, it will be a national team composed entirely of black players.
