{"id":11812,"date":"2022-12-15T08:36:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T03:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=264560"},"modified":"2022-12-15T08:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T03:06:53","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2022-france-becomes-the-first-nation-to-reach-successive-finals-since-brazil-in-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/fifa-world-cup-2022-france-becomes-the-first-nation-to-reach-successive-finals-since-brazil-in-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2022: France becomes the first nation to reach successive finals since Brazil in 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French national football team defeated Morocco in the semifinals of the FIFA World Cup 2022 to book their place in the finals. The final game will be a blockbuster as Lionel Messi will face Kylian Mbappe. Both these forward players have scored many goals for their nations in this year\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>France has easily made it to the finals of the FIFA World Cup 2022. The defending champions didn\u2019t take much time to lead Morocco in the game as the left-back Theo Hernandez scored a spectacular goal with his left foot to put France in front.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s national football team was ahead of Morocco in every aspect as they created a lot of chances in both halves. The scoreline of 1-0 didn\u2019t do justice to France\u2019s chances in the game. Later in the second half, Frankfurt\u2019s forward Kolo Muani scored the winner and it was over for Morocco in the FIFA World Cup 2022.<\/p>\n<p>With this victory, France also became the first nation to reach successive World Cup finals since Brazil in 2002. France will now face Argentina in the final game on 18th December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France and Argentina will face each other in the finals of the FIFA World Cup 2022 on 18th December. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":34275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2663,284,449,487,892],"class_list":["post-11812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-argentina-fc","tag-france","tag-kylian-mbappe","tag-lionel-messi","tag-morocco"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}