The French national team blew up the phenomenon of the birth of a new champion every 20 years by winning the Russian World Cup for the second time in its history.
And there has been a new champion every 20 years since the 1958 World Cup when Brazil achieved the first World Cup in its history after beating Sweden 5 goals to 2.
After another 20 years had passed, a new hero was born, namely the Argentine national team, which achieved its first World Cup on its soil and among its fans in 1978 by defeating the Dutch national team with three goals to one.
And the championship returned to the old continent after 20 years, to win the French team, which qualified for the final of this version, after it swept its Brazilian counterpart 3-0 at the end of the 1998 World Cup for the first time in the history of the roosters.
Everyone predicted that the Croats would win after qualifying for the final based on a new champion every 20 years, after the birth of two champions from South America, then a champion from Europe, but the French roosters blew that up, achieving their second championship to equal with Uruguay and Argentina.
And while the French blew up the birth of a new champion every 20 years, the rule of Monaco jinxed its guards in the finals has been proven for the fourth time.
After Subasic, the goalkeeper of the Croatian professional team, scored 4 times in the final in Monaco, he was one of the French players to be the fourth goalkeeper to play in the World Cup final in a row from the French club to lose, and it is strange that the three goalkeepers in the previous versions were the losing party in the final.
The beginning of the story of Monaco's jinx was with the finalists of the 2006 World Cup in the World Cup in Germany, when France lost with its goalkeeper Fabien Barthez, who was playing in Monaco at the time, then the matter was repeated with the Netherlands in the World Cup in South Africa 2010 when it lost the final with the presence of its goalkeeper Martin Stekelenburg, also the goalkeeper of Monaco.
For the third time in a row, Argentina lost the semi-finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, with its goalkeeper Sergio Romero, who was then playing for the French club.
Naeem Tamim Al Hakim (Jeddah) @naeemtamimimalhac
