Paris. On July 12, 1998, France won more than just a trophy. They broke a historical inferiority complex and created a great saga that lives on to this day.Before that date, French football was haunted by its own bad past. Despite being a founder of the world's biggest competitions, France was associated with a cruel paradox.France was a nation that rarely won despite its impressive stature. It was an inventor who could not control its own creation. France's identity was built on a culture of 'magnificent defeat'.This habit of finding greatness even in failure had, over the years, turned into...