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    On France's World Cup roster, soccer DNA outranks national origins

    by Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times Jul 14, 2018 3 minutes

    MOSCOW - To the French national motto liberte, egalite, fraternite you can probably go ahead and add diversite, at least as far as its soccer team is concerned.

    Because at a time of rising xenophobia and an anti-immigrant backlash on both sides of the Atlantic, France has made it to Sunday's World Cup final against Croatia with one of the most diverse and multiethnic rosters of any national team in any sport.

    Sixteen of the 23 players on the team come from families that recently immigrated to France from places like

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