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Adil Rami of France and his team-mates celebrate victory with the FIFA World Cup trophy (Getty)

Adil Rami of France and his team-mates celebrate victory with the FIFA World Cup trophy (Getty) Source: Getty

The 2018 World Cup is over- and the trophy has returned to a familiar home. France is football's world champion against after defeating Croatia in the World Cup final in Moscow. It was a game that wasn't short of action and it capped off a tournament of similar qualities. With the story of the French triumph, here's our correspondent at WC Russia 2018 editor-in-chief of Sportsdaily.ru Ivan Zhidkov

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The 2018 World Cup is over- and the trophy has returned to a familiar home. France is football's world champion against after defeating Croatia in the World Cup final in Moscow. It was a game that wasn't short of action and it capped off a tournament of similar qualities. With the story of the French triumph, here's our correspondent at WC Russia 2018 editor-in-chief of Sportsdaily.ru Ivan Zhidkov

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