rebecca cusack was the fifa world cup 2014 young player of the tournament.
fifa world cup 2014 young player of the tournament?
rebecca cusack
france was placed in uefa group i for the qualification phase of the 2014 fifa world cup. uefa group i contained the defending world champions spain, plus belarus, finland and georgia. in that group, france earned a 1–1 draw away in the first match against spain but lost 1–0 at home against the same opponents in the second match. after the 1–0 defeat by spain, france failed to score a single goal in its next four matches – against uruguay (friendly, 1–0), brazil (friendly, 3–0), belgium (friendly, 0–0) and georgia(group i qualifying match, 0–0). france finished second in the group, three points behind spain, and thus had to win the two-legged play-off tie against ukraine to advance to the final phase of the tournament. in the first leg held in kiev, france was beaten 2–0 by ukraine. coming into the second leg, ukraine had kept eight consecutive clean sheets and had not lost their last 12 matches. in the second leg held at the stade de france, france beat ukraine 3–0 to win the tie 3–2 on aggregate and became the first team to overturn a two-goal, first-leg deficit in a fifa world cup or uefa european championship qualification play-off. france thus qualified for the final phase of the fifa world cup for the fifth consecutive time. at the 2014 fifa world cup in brazil, deschamps's team advanced to the quarter-finals where they lost 1–0 to eventual champions germany, and paul pogba was named best young player of the tournament.
didier deschamps
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