The Latest Breaking News from Olivier Giroud

For one so handsome, Olivier Giroud hasn’t had it all his own way. At the age of 21, when many of his contemporaries were playing Champions’ League football, the Frenchman signed his first contract. He played mostly that year in the fifth tier of French football, alongside amateurs and semi-professionals.

The 2022 World Cup has been a huge success on the pitch and the race for the Golden Ball is hotting up with the likes of Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi among the front runners

World Cup news: Argentina vs France odds and predictions via Betfair as the two nations battle it out at the Lusail Stadium on Sunday.

Lionel Messi has never won a World Cup but only France stand in his way of changing that - and Olivier Giroud and his France team-mates are not planning to make it easy for the Argentina star

Lionel Messi has been warned France will do “everything humanly possible” to stop him emulating Diego Maradona and realising his World Cup dream.

In today’s Football Daily: Argentina, France and email header renderings

Without midfielder from the last World Cup, Didier Deschamps must find a fresh strategy to contain Argentina’s captain

The Moroccan international was forced to ask Olivier Giroud to stop constantly man-marking him during Wednesday night's defeat by France at the World Cup semi-final stage

Succession planning for England’s captain makes sense but the problem is that few of the current alternatives stand out