14-0 Against Gibraltar; Les Blues Breaks All The Glass Roofs Of Their Records
On November 2023, the France national team broke all the glass roofs of their history. The “Blues army” has made a 14-0 goal streak over Gibraltar in the qualifiers game of the UEFA Euro Championships Germany 2023. The match was held at Allianz Riviera in Nice.
The new 14-0 broke the record of what was considered as the biggest victory in France’s history, France-Azerbaijan in 1995, in which France won over 10-0 . But that is not it, the match broke more than one record. Warren Zaire Emiry became the youngest player to represent Les Blues since the 1914, bagging fourth place among the youngest player to represent French national team.
Warren Zaïre-Emery est titulaire pour affronter Gibraltar aux côtés de @KMbappe ! 🤩🇫🇷
Les premières minutes en @equipedefrance pour notre Parisien, plus jeune joueur tricolore depuis 1914 ! 👏
Bon match à nos Parisiens ! ❤️💙#MadeInParis pic.twitter.com/plnXKR2hgo
— Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) November 18, 2023
Apart from being the fourth youngest player, Mr. Emiry became the second youngest goal scorer for the French national team. He comes behind Maurice Gastiger with third goal of the encounter. But he was could not finish the game and left the field early.
But the Paris Saint German contribution to Les Blues did not end with Mr. Emiry. Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele also added to the goal back with 3 and 1 respectively and thus breaking another record which was dated back to 1985, with Dominique Rocheteau’s hat trick and Luis Fernandez’s goal against Luxembourg. The France Vs Gibraltar match also mark first time for France during which 3 different goal scorers form a club has scored.
PSG’s “Ninja turtle”, Kylian Mbappe once again defied the “norms of football world”. Mr. Mbappe scored his 300th goal of his career (club + country), that too before turning 25. By this, he has out passed the records of Lionel Messi, Christiano Ronaldo and Neymar Jr. with total of 44 goals for French national team, Mbappe has entered the podium for top scorers of the Blues army, on par with Antoine Griezmann and behind Thierry Henry and Olivier Giroud.
