{"id":300392,"date":"2018-07-15T17:43:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300392"},"modified":"2018-07-15T17:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T17:52:32","slug":"france-are-fifa-2018-world-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/france-are-fifa-2018-world-champions\/","title":{"rendered":"France are FIFA 2018 World Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_300396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300396\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300396\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/FIFA-champions-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/FIFA-champions-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/FIFA-champions-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/FIFA-champions-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/FIFA-champions-696x461.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/FIFA-champions-1068x708.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/FIFA-champions-633x420.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/FIFA-champions.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-300396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit FIFA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">France won the FIFA world cup 2018 after beating Croatia by 4-2 in an intense match on Sunday at Moscow\u2019s Luzhniki stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">France became the champions after a gap of 20 years, last time France won was in year 1998.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Goals from Kylian Mbappe, Antoine Griezmann, Paul Pogba and Mario Mandzukic\u2019s own goal gave France the win. Meanwhile goals from Ivan Perisic and Mario Mandzukic were not enough for Croatia to lift their maiden world cup trophy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Antoine Griezmann<\/strong> was named <strong>man of the match<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Luka Modrick<\/strong> of Croatia got the <strong>Golden ball award<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Kylian Mbappe<\/strong> of France got the <strong>FIFA young player award<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Harry Kane<\/strong> of England got the <strong>Golden Boot Award<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Thibaut Courtois<\/strong> of Belgium got the <strong>Golden Glove award<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>FIFA Fair Play Trophy<\/strong> went to <strong>Spain<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France won the FIFA world cup 2018 after beating Croatia by 4-2 in an intense match on Sunday at Moscow\u2019s Luzhniki stadium. France became the champions after a gap of 20 years, last time France won was in year 1998. Goals from Kylian Mbappe, Antoine Griezmann, Paul Pogba and Mario Mandzukic\u2019s own goal gave France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[3575,2544,2547,1776],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300392"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300399,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300392\/revisions\/300399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}