Paris [France], Jul 16 (NT): France’s second win for FIFA World Cup title after thrashing Croatia 4-2 in a grand final at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium has not only put a stop to its 20-year-long row for the triumph but also the debate over discrimination and color of players.
Worth mention here in the majority of France team's 23 players being either immigrants or the children of immigrants. France at least for now would shut the repulsive discussions on immigration.
Here are some of The France Football Players who are immigrants
1. Footballer Kylian Mbappe has emerged as the French hero of the World Cup. He is the son of immigrants from Algeria and Cameroon.
2. Footballer Paul Pogba was also brought by immigrant parents in Paris.
3. N'Golo Kante plays as a defensive midfielder for the France national team. He is the son of immigrants from Mali .
3. Blaise Matuid is a central midfielder of the team. He raised by an Angolan father and a Congolese mother.
4. Samuel Umtiti is the Cameroon-born defender.
5. Steve Mandanda was born in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The grand and high-octane win of France football team that includes mostly immigrants or children of immigrants would allow the boys be hailed as champions in a country that has always witnessed tense bonds with its North African minority.
These boys could be touted as role models for millennial of Arab and African backgrounds in France's seedy suburbs.
Twenty years after clinching its first FIFA World Cup Title in 1998, France on Sunday marked historic win again in Russia while the world favourites Croatia received defeat by 4-2.