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    Croatia and France have little in common … except a desire to win the World Cup

    by Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times Jul 13, 2018 3 minutes

    MOSCOW - There has never been a World Cup final between such widely disparate teams as the France-Croatia matchup on Sunday.

    France is an established soccer power, playing in its third title game in 20 years. With a population of 67 million, it has sent 204 players to the World Cup since 2002, the most of any country. And its national team players' transfer fees are worth more than $1.2 billion, collectively.

    Croatia wasn't even an established country, much less a soccer power, a generation ago. With a

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