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BREAKING 🚨: AMONG THESE THREE, WHO CAN YOU BRING BACK IF GIVEN A CHANCE? 🤔

Nothing is really stopping this Real Madrid side from winning the UCL on pure talent 👀

Mbappé + Vini + Diomande
Bellingham + Rodri + Valverde
Cucurella + Rüdiger + Konaté + Dumfries

Thierry Henry was eighteen years old at Euro 96, three years away from the Arsenal career that would eventually make him one of the greatest strikers the Premier League has ever seen, and nobody watching him play for AS Monaco that summer could have known exactly how far this specific group of players was about to go together.

Zinedine Zidane, Didier Deschamps, Laurent Blanc, Marcel Desailly, Lilian Thuram, Bixente Lizarazu and Fabien Barthez were all part of this Euro 96 squad too, two years before every single one of them would lift the World Cup together on home soil. This lineup is basically watching the 1998 champions before anyone outside France knew they were about to become exactly that.

France reached the semi-final at Euro 96 without losing a single match in ninety minutes, going out only on penalties, first surviving the Netherlands in the quarterfinal and then losing to the Czech Republic in the last four, the kind of cruelly tight exit that made the eventual 1998 triumph feel even more inevitable in hindsight.

Christophe Dugarry and Youri Djorkaeff carried the attacking creativity alongside young Henry. Emmanuel Petit controlled midfield with the same combative energy that would later make him an Arsenal Premier League winner himself, giving English fans a small preview of what was coming to north London.

Aimé Jacquet built this entire generation despite facing constant, often brutal criticism from the French press throughout his tenure, criticism that turned into a completely different kind of national conversation the moment this same core group lifted the World Cup two years later.

Twenty two men, most of them still a couple of years away from becoming the answer to the question France had been asking itself for decades. Sometimes a golden generation announces itself all at once. This one built its legend one heartbreaking penalty shootout at a time first.

Cette génération n'était pas encore championne. Elle était en train de le devenir.

Among these three groups, which group are you going to pick on your champion league final

Barcelona Best Squad 2026/27💀🔥

📅 13 years ago, Arsenal gave Manchester United and Robin van Persie a guard of honour for winning the Premier League. 🥶

They'll be doing the same for Liverpool in two weeks.

🚨💣REMINDER: Real Madrid started the same team in back to back Champions League finals and won them both.✅🔥

Iconic.