The Historic Rivalry: Germany vs France – A Clash of World Champions

It’s the kind of poster that endures through the ages, regardless of whether one of the selections is on the edge of the precipice, the other in the form of its life. It’s the type of match that pushes children to implore their parents to go to bed a little later than expected, as Antoine Griezmann said he used to do as a kid, before a Germany-France on TV, the one that no one I want to lose, even if it’s just a friend who says his name wrong. Because the meeting between the last two European nations to have been world champions will always leave a trace, a memory, at least on this side of the Rhine, of Mats Hummels’ header during the 2014 World Cup, to Antoine Griezmann’s two doubles, at Euro 2016 and in the Nations League in 2019, including that of Alexandre Lacazette, for his last selection, in 2017.