France captain Patrice Evra will call a press conference later this week to fully detail the reasons behind Les Bleus' disastrous World Cup campaign.
Raymond Domenech's team lost 2-1 to South Africa on Tuesday to finish bottom of Group A in a campaign in which Nicolas Anelka was sent home following a dispute with Domenech and the players boycotted training in protest.
Evra, who was dropped for Tuesday's match, told French channel TF1: "It's the time now for apologising and for feeling all the suffering that the millions of French are feeling. This apology goes directly to them.I'm not going to go into details, I'll give a press conference during the week."
Years | Winners | Runner-up | Third place |
2006 | Italy | France | Germany |
2002 | Brazil | Germany | Turkey |
1998 | France | Brazil | Croatia |
1994 | Brazil | Italy | Sweden |
1990 | Germany | Argentina | Italy |
1986 | Argentina | Germany | France |
1982 | Italy | Germany | Poland |
1978 | Argentina | Holland | Brazil |
1974 | Germany | Holland | Poland |
1970 | Brazil | Italy | Germany |
1966 | England | Germany | Portugal |
1962 | Brazil | Czech | Chile |
1958 | Brazil | Sweden | France |
1954 | Germany | Hungary | Austria |
1950 | Uruguay | Brazil | Sweden |
1938 | Italy | Hungary | Brazil |
1934 | Italy | Czech | Germany |
1930 | Uruguay | Argentina | America |