Only Argentina separates Hugo Lloris from turning into statistically essentially the most profitable goalkeeper in World Cup historical past.
The France goalkeeper may equal Brazil’s Gilmar dos Santos (1958 and 1962) as the one goalkeeper to have received two World Cups by beginning the ultimate.
Goalkeepers who received the World Cup as starters
- Enrique Ballesteros (Uruguay/1930)
- Gianpiero Combi (Italy/1934)
- Aldo Olivieri (Italy/1938)
- Roque G. Maspoli (Uruguay/1950)
- Toni Turek (Germany/1954)
- Gilmar dos Santos (Brazil/1958)
- Gilmar dos Santos (Brazil/1962)
- Gordon Banks (England/1966)
- Flix Milli Venerando (Brazil/1970)
- Sepp Maier (Germany/1974)
- ‘Pato’ Fillol (Argentina/1978)
- Dino Zoff (Italy/1982)
- Nery Pumpido (Argentina/1986)
- Bodo Illgner (Germany/1990)
- Claudio Taffarel (Brazil/1994)
- Fabien Barthez (France/1998)
- Marcos (Brazil/2002)
- Gianluigi Buffon (Italy/2006)
- Iker Casillas (Spain/2010)
- Manuel Neuer (Germany/2014)
- Hugo Lloris (France/2018)
The Tottenham keeper, ought to he beat the Albiceleste within the closing, will develop into the primary goalkeeper to have received the World Cup twice as captain.
It’s value remembering that solely 4 goalkeepers have captained their group in World Cup finals: Gianpiero Combi (Italy/1934), Dino Zoff (Italy/1982), Iker Casillas (2010) and Hugo Lloris himself (2018). “It is a golden alternative to go down in historical past,” he acknowledged after eliminating Morocco.
There’s a file that Lloris, until he doesn’t play resulting from distinctive circumstances, will break no matter occurs towards Argentina. France’s keeper will overtake Manuel Neuer (19) to develop into, with 20, the most-capped goalkeeper in World Cup historical past.
The 35-year-old former Good and Lyon man is coming off the again of one other file at Qatar 2022. Within the 2-1 quarter-final victory over England, he overtook Lilian Thuram (142) as France’s most-capped participant.
He has 144 caps, 117 targets conceded and 63 clear sheets since making his debut towards Uruguay (0-0) on November 19, 2008, aged 21 years and 10 months, below Raymond Domenech.
“I am proud, however it’s nonetheless secondary. The World Cup comes first. I am certain that when the event is over I will respect these data much more,” mentioned Lloris.
He’ll fall simply wanting one other file… until he makes it to 2026. Lloris, who’s coming off the again of a 2-0 clear sheet towards Morocco, has eight clear sheets at World Cups. The file holder on this class is held by Peter Shilton and Fabian Barthez, with 10.
Earlier than that, nevertheless, the ultimate awaits: “We have been exhausted towards Morocco, however it will likely be an amazing closing as a result of Argentina are an amazing group. They’ve a participant of their ranks who’s soccer historical past, like Messi, however we now have the arguments to combat them.”