What went wrong for Brazil at France 98? 

The Ronaldo incident is true ! It wasn't like a cold or a headache. He actually had a seizure. However, France was outstanding and deserved to win. Plain and simple. This is coming from a Brazilian.

Imagine if they still had Romario in the squad that will always be a what if.

I would rather ask the same question for FIFA world cup final in 2014 in Brazil. Never seen them humiliated at home or abroad like that . As a big Brazil fan myself, it was devastating to watch .

Whatever they still lost against France in 2006...

Lol talking about France as if they were some underdogs, they had Zidane, Henry, Vieira, Deschamps, Blanc, Thuram and Barthez...

In 1998, only Italy were close to win against France. 0-0 full time... and 4-3 on Pks. By far the most stressful match for France. I like Brazil, but they got flattened.

at least it wasn't 7-1

Zinedine Zidane is what went wrong for Brazil.

it's better than 7-1 by Germany in World Cup 2014 in Brazil, their own land.

The problem was Zidane, He was unstoppable!

It wasn't just Zidane and his goals, he score two via set pieces then the last goal was made when it was already over, the final was won mainly due to the defense and defensive midfield.

Ronaldo still walked away with two world cup titles ('94 & 2002). He is a legend nonetheless. This would have only made it three world cup titles in a row.

what happened? well... we lost to a great team. as a Brazilian i still remember that France team, not because of that game, but the whole tourment. Holland was great also.

amazing how quickly people forget about that crazy French team: Zidane, Lizarazu, Vieira, Deschamps, Desailly, Pirès, Henry, Thuram, Barthez, Petit, Lebœuf, Karembeu, Trezeguet........ Ronaldo is probably my fab player of all time, along with Zizou, but that French team was too good, even with Ronaldo 100% it would've been incredibly difficult to beat France

that french team was amazing. what they lacked in firepower they made up with an amazing defense.

What went wrong..?? ZINEDINE ZIDANE

Its hard to defend when youre distracted by the fact that your greatest player and friend could possibly die right then and there.

This tells you that at the World Cup level, all things have to come together to become champs. It just wasn't Brazil's day. Brazil has consistent talent and football winning history so they don't need to worry about their future in football.

and I don't see any Brazilian saying four years later they won the world cup against Germany because they could't line up Ballack due to bloody yellow cards! give me a break

The best game of Zidane's career. He absolutely dominated the Brazilians. They were never a great defensive team anyway.

brazil was a good team, france was a good team too, especially with zidane at his peak on the French side. Brazil has won many world cups before already...did they expect to win again and never ever lose or what? In sport you can't always win, you're gonna lose sometime too.

From a brazilian. That Brazil x France is in the past. France is a good team. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Is the way things happen.

Zidane played this team like a guitar. His hall control and distribution was awesome.

If everything in a team relies on one player, it means the team is weak and deserve to loose.

In retrospect I wouldn't have wanted them to win 3 World Cups in a row. And Zidane was a beast at that time.

Back then me and my friends we made assumptions that French team bribed the Brazilian to let them win because look at the goals France scored you would have not believed it but watching this video gave me a different perspective.

French coach:"hey zizou, first plot on corners is their weakness, give it a try" ok coach... Second reason is the french goal keeper...

Zidane was the one that went wrong

Ronaldo suffered a 'cerebral convulsion' before the game. the Brazilian players were visibly altered with this episode. were not concentrated, because they feared that the ronaldo suffered another seizure in the field. France could have won anyway, but ronaldo's participation in the final has hurt the Brazilian national team. it is enough to see a move in which ronaldo collides with the French keeper and the leonardo is desperate with ronaldo.

why people that was 5 yrs old in 1998 are speaking? WHY?

They played a superior side. That's what went wrong.

Ronaldo lost to France in 2006 wc quarter final again

Brazil missed romario's experience

Damn!! I didn't know any of this. Yet I watched it and celebrated Zizou!!!

Plot twist, 2002 World Cup he scored two in the final. Just thought id mention it, since no one is talking about it.

They played a tough semi final against (in my opinion) the best team in the tournament in the Netherlands. Also the Ronaldo saga seemed to leave their heads elsewhere, as it probably would if you saw your star player convulsing. I still maintain to this day if Holland had won that shootout they’d have beaten France in the final.

Look at France's squad. Their players were better at the time. How could a fit Ronaldo rescue Brazil? He's a striker, not a defender. Brazil lost 3-0. Regardless if Ronaldo would have been fit or not, Brazil's defense would have still failed to cope with the talented players of France. France were simply better in all aspects.

No matter what happened Brazil still number 1 with 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆(5) world cups *I pretty sure 2022 Brazil will take it.*

I was watching that game it was unbelievable game zidane was another level

the same thing that went wrong in 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018! Conceding early goals and didn't know how to come back and stop opposition! in 1998 and 2006 - it was also Zidane!

We don't know what really happen to Ronaldo cause we weren't there or was not part of the Brazilian squad but we do know is that France won and that night the whole Brazilian squad wasn't focus on the game but only on Ronaldo, who didn't show up that night. You can't say that Junior or Brazil is only making an excuse for a lost because the whole world wanted to know what happen that day and that Junior was just explain what actually happen. Brazil took the lost and didn't want to talk about it but the whole world wanted to know, so saying that Brazil is just making an excuses when we all wanted to know what happen to Brazil that night just makes us dumb

" A colleague and a friend almost lost his life"??? LMAO. That escalated quickly!

He isn't saying if that situation didn't happen Brazil would have won. He is just explaining how that situation turned the game into a very, very one sided contest. I am sure everyone can admit that had that not happened Brazil would have given more of a competition and the two time world player of year would have done more than take some hap hazard touches.

Brazil faced their sworn rivals (France) , it seems they are destined to lose to France in every world cup , just like Germany is destined to lose to Italy in every world cup .

would’ve loved to see the 🇳🇱 vs 🇫🇷 in the final but oh well

dont forget BRAZIL LOST TO NORWAY IN GROUP STAGE 2-1

🇧🇷 5-2 🇨🇵 (1958 FIFA WC Semi-finals) 🇨🇵 1-1 🇧🇷 (1986 FIFA WC Quarter-finals) (4-3)= "PSO" 🇨🇵 3-0 🇧🇷 (1998 FIFA WC FINAL) 🇨🇵 2-1 🇧🇷 (2001 FIFA Confederations Cup Semi-finals) 🇨🇵 1-0 🇧🇷 (2006 FIFA WC Quarter-finals)

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Brazil were not prepared to play the final, but if Ronaldo was fit to play as planned, I believe fate would’ve been different for Brazil. The people today have no idea what impact Ronaldo had on his team. He was the best player in the world at the time, won the Ballon D’or the 2 previous seasons. He was the most feared dribbler in the world, no one was close to his level, not even Zidane. If he was healthy in the final, I don’t think the France team could’ve handled him. Their players don’t have the ability to handle Ronaldo’s cleverness & trickery. In addition to that, Ronaldo’s explosiveness on the ball was unmatched. One superstar can carry an entire team, and no player was ever as big of a game changer as Ronaldo at his peak.

A team is more than a single player by definition. It's unfortunate that Ronaldo got sick as you want the best of both teams to compete, but it in no way invalidates what the French team accomplished during their home tournament. This is a rather poor excuse.

As Brazilian our culture is e always to give unsubstantiated excuses because France still sent us home in 2006 with Thierry's goal.

France were phenomenal in the fine, and more than deserved their victory. I don't think Junior Baiano is making an excuse for the defeat, although it is certain that their top striker was a shell of his former self. I believe he is simply narrating the events of the previous day and there is no question the shock had a psychological impact on the team as a whole. But of course, I don't buy his argument that the team was so concerned for Ronaldo that there had been no prior focus on the task of beating France. We cannot take anything away from the fact that the Brazilians were outrun, out-passed and totally outplayed in the final. If anything, perhaps a fully fit Ronaldo would have been able to notch Brazil a consolation goal. I don't think it would have wrestled the title away from the host nation. The French played such a complete game.

He made up for it 4 years later. In 98 France were destined to win it. They had a great team and the bit of luck needed to win any knockout tournament.

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Can you make a video like this for the 2002 Ronaldo at the World Cup where he made up for this Final? THANKS

1998 team was top heavy. Bebeto doesn't fit into teams fast style but still kept his place being a legend. Defence only has Aldair and Junior Biano and the rest are more keen to go up field. France however were a solid team just like in 2018 WC in Russia including non goal scoring No.9.

Brazil was at that time 1.Current WC Winner 1994 (USA) 2.Current Copa America 1997 Winner (the equivalent of Eurocup in Europe) 3.Current Confed Cup Winner 1997 In a nutshell, they won EVERYTHING and reached the final of 1998 And the fault for losing to France was neither Ronaldo´s nor fatality. It was the coach´s fault for not taking Romario (Yes, that guy who won the world cup 1994 for Brazil with Bebeto and who was part of the team that won those 2 competitons of 1997) because of ¨personal¨ reasons, hidden under the pretext of injury, which was bullshit, because by the time Brazil played against Denmark in the quarter finals, Romario was scoring goals in the Brazilian League. Romário would have put Zidane in the shadows.

Why some brasilians won't forget that final ?!? You've Won The World cup 5 times now ... That's very good ! And France deserve it world cup 1998 !

France deserved to win. They were a great side that year. It doesn’t really matter whether Ronaldo was healthy or not. Give credit when the credit is due.

That France team was also exceptional. No shame in losing to them tbh.

"What went wrong for Brazil at France 98?" Zidane and his goals. That's it

A SAD 😭 MOMENT FOR BRAZIL.

Reminds me of E.T with the blanket and the bike :D

France's manager was the actual game changer.

Answer: Nike

Do all of you believe this video? He wasn't just sick. He had a seizure as well.

France would get the same consecutive win denial 24 years later.

World Cup 98 was great

So what went wrong with France in 2002 world cup specially the opening game!?

They lost, plain and simple.

4:03 The French coach this year for 2018 WC

Those who don`t play football seriously can not understand how a key person`s missing can change the whole situation. Of course all the credit went to Zidane.

What excuse will they have for 2014 and 2018?

The Brazilian football association and the doctors made a poor judgement. If tis story is true, they shouldn't have allowed him to play that game. They put his life and health in risk, poor poor decision!!!

It was Suzie, the same girl who cooked lasagna for the All Blacks before the 1995 rugby world cup final against the mighty Springboks

The Best ever!

Croatia was Sooo close mayne

African juju caught Ronaldo

Brazil had hard semifinal with overtime against holand, it cost some energy...

Once a commentaries said: "Two well match team but one little genius is the difference maker and put his team front" that was said about lionel messi against real madrid in a cup final where he scored a late winner in the last minutes of the game and won the same thing can be said about Zizu both teams were well match but all it took to win that match was 2 moments of pure magic from one of all time greats and not just the goals but the passes, skills, ball control players like Zizu on there day they are unplayable.

If I remember it right, France was the better side that year 98. France only conceided 2 goals during the entire tournament. 1 goal vs Paraguay and 1 goal vs Croatia.

It’s plain and simple - they choked. Even so, France would’ve worked harder in training and their gameplans probably turned out right

The only time Brazil won against a competitive fixture against France was once in 1958. Let that sink in!

That wasn’t how it took place, Ronaldo was slightly injured but the Brasília defense was not the best.

France was dominant, period.

France had a phenomenal team but I still think that some fishy stuff happened there! Even if medically fit, if a player isn't performing there's no reason why he can't be taken off, especially after having had a fit hours before! Anyone who watched this game saw that Ronaldo wasn't being himself, was the manager blind? Situations like these and the refereing in 2002 have taken away all prestige of the world cup.

They were playing against the rich country and the host, Brazil never played like the previous games before the final one

always the same with the brazilian team. their whole matchplan focuses on one offense player. same in 2014: the scorrer was injured and they got humiliated instandly.

Nothing, Brazil got Zidaned! Simple!

Everything went wrong for Brazil in that game, and the only one to blame is the "coach" named Zagallo. For years, the team showed that our defense was a shame! OK, we had Ronaldo, Romario, Rivaldo and others. But we saw in that France tournament in 97 that it could be not enough when the time to play the world cup arrived. Aside that part, Zagallo choose to let Juninho and Romario out of the tournament for reasons that nobody knows until this day. Not to mention the decision to put Ronaldo in the game since the beggining in the final match. The guy had problems that day, almost died, nobody gave a damn to that match after that. And in the field, the players were more concerned about what would happen to Ronaldo that to the game itself. I'm not denying France's effort, or saying that they only won because of Ronaldo mysterious ill state. They could had won even if nothing weird happened. But the whole world is sure that it wouldn't be by a 3-0 score, with Brazil unable to hold the Ball for more that 5 seconds...

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20 years later, France luckily wins the World Cup again.

They always come up with conspiracy theories around Ronaldo's health...! On one side you keep calling this defending champions Brazilian team as the best one ever and on the other hand they started showcasing themselves as a bunch of crybabies without Ronaldo...!!?

What went wrong for Brazil at France 98? the answer is simple, leaving Romario was the wrong, because if Romario was there in that night that game could have another face.

Allow me to answer your question: Zidane. You’re welcome.

Even as a Frenchie to me the most impressive team back then was Holland, not sure if we would've won against them

Same tournament brazil lost to Norway lol

The French somehow made him sick...

I always thought that someone poisoned their food.

This video’s title made me watch this video