{"id":6023,"date":"2026-07-13T13:22:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/10.0.0.2\/wordpress\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:22:45","slug":"28-years-ago-france-won-its-first-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/28-years-ago-france-won-its-first-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"28 years ago, France won its first World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">28 years ago, on July 12, 1998, at the Stade de France, Les Bleus won their first World Cup by beating Brazil 3-0 in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">28 years ago, on July 12, 1998, at the Stade de France, Les Bleus won their first World Cup by beating Brazil 3-0 in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The French goals were scored by Zin\u00e9dine Zidane, who netted a header brace in the first half (27th and 45th+1), and then by Emmanuel Petit in the dying seconds of the match (90th+3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The French team was managed by coach Aim\u00e9 Jacquet, who gave Les Bleus their first world title in history. Didier Deschamps, the current coach of Les Bleus, was the captain of the winning team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 years ago, on July 12, 1998, at the Stade de France, Les Bleus won their first World Cup by beating Brazil 3-0 in the final. 28 years ago, on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"content-type":"","_aifi_custom_prompt":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"coauthors":[57],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6025,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions\/6025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/times509.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}