France 2018
France won Russia 2018 with a young, athletic, and devastatingly effective squad. Kylian Mbappé, just 19 years old, dazzled the world with superhuman speed the second teenager to score in a World Cup final after Pelé. In the final on 15 July in Moscow, before 78,011 spectators, Croatia matched them stride for stride but costly errors proved their undoing. Griezmann converted a VAR-awarded penalty the first time the technology had intervened in a final Pogba fired from outside the box, Mbappé sealed the fourth with an unanswerable left-footed strike, and in between Hugo Lloris gifted Mandžukić a goal with a bizarre error. Final score: 4-2. France lifted their second World Cup twenty years after the first, with Didier Deschamps becoming the third person to win it as both player and manager.