Numbers back France's claim of being soccer's dominant nation
by Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times
Jul 04, 2018
3 minutes
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia - Ask Didier Quillot who he is supporting in the World Cup and the chief executive of France's first-division league pauses to work up the proper amount of disdain before answering.
"Who am I for? For France, obviously," he eventually said Wednesday. "I am French. So I am a supporter of my country. "
The answer really isn't that obvious, though, because Quillot's league has 19 players spread across the rosters of six of the eight teams
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