France The locally-based "Les Blues" have talent all over the field. Anything short of a deep knockout round run will be viewed as a dis

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Argentina returned to the top of the world rankings on ​Thursday right in time for their ‌World Cup title defence as France dropped two spots to third.

The Journal’s sports columnist leads a roundtable with acclaimed WSJ soccer correspondents Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg on who’s going to win and who’s going to collapse.

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