For his latest competition at the head of the French team, next year at the 2026 World Cup, Didier Deschamps hopes once again to avoid a “death group” in the first round. The Blues are obviously not yet qualified for the FIFA tournament organized in Canada, the United States and Mexico (but fully disputed in the US from the quarter-finals). Kylian MbappĂ© and his teammates fell into a group of playoffs with Ukraine, Iceland and Azerbaijan, who will give his verdict during the international windows in September, October and November.
As a reminder, the Blues really was very lucky during the draws of the three editions of the World Cup under the orders of “La Dèche”. For the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the EDF, then 21st in the FIFA ranking, was not in hat 1 and pulled the worst selection of this hat: Switzerland. Not to mention that France, the European qualified European classified, should have logically had to be excluded from the hat of Europeans (which was made up of nine teams). Italy was sent to another hat to fall on Uruguay and England.
Kylian Mbappé goalscorer at France-Pérou, the second Blues match at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
In 2018, back among the heads of the meanders, France avoided Spain and England in hat 2 to come across the weakest formation, Peru. Hugo Lloris and his teammates beat Australia and then the Peruvians before doing 0-0 against Denmark, on the way to their coronation in Russia. Finally, in 2022, the world champions, in addition to finding Denmark, this time drawn the least well-classified teams of hats 3 and 4, namely Tunisia and Australia. Simply.
New Zealand for France?
For the World Cup 26, the French team would be part of the head of the heads of the series in case of qualification and thus avoid Argentina, Spain, England, Brazil, Portugal or Belgium. There will indeed be twelve teams by hat due to the expansion of the competition from 32 to 48, to constitute 12 groups of four. Germany will be avoided in hat 2, but the Blues can very well come across an Asian nation, Japan, Iran and South Korea, or a South American adversary, Colombia and Uruguay.
In hats 3 and 4 projected Football Rankingsseries heads like France can largely draw national teams of much average quality, such as Panama, Paraguay, Costa Rica, South Africa and Uzbekistan in Pot 3, or Iraq, Jordan, Jamaica and New Zealand (already qualified) in the 4. In both cases, the African Hats 3 ivory) as well as the four winners of European dams in hat 4 (Football Rankings For the moment gives Serbia, Norway, Greece and Turkey).
