{"id":264,"date":"2026-03-30T06:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/264\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T06:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:48:21","slug":"doue-scores-2-goals-and-france-downs-colombia-3-1-in-world-cup-tune-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/264\/","title":{"rendered":"Dou\u00e9 scores 2 goals and France downs Colombia 3-1 in World Cup tune-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LANDOVER, Md. (AP) \u2014 D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 scored a pair of goals and France defeated Colombia 3-1 on Sunday as both teams prepare for the men&#8217;s World Cup this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus Thuram also scored for the French before an announced crowd of 60,734 at Northwest Stadium, home of the NFL&#8217;s Washington Commanders.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After starting in France&#8217;s 2-1 victory over Brazil earlier this week, Kylian Mbappe came in as a substitute in the 78th minute. He remains a goal away from matching France\u2019s all-time goal scoring record, held by Olivier Giroud with 57 goals.<\/p>\n<p>Mbappe was working his way back after a knee injury that has sidelined him in matches for his club team, Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Mbappe and Hugo Ekitike both scored against Brazil on Thursday in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Bremer scored a late goal for Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Les Bleus, the World Cup winners in 1998 and 2018, have not dropped a match since last June and are ranked second in the FIFA rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Colombia, ranked No. 13, was coming off a 2-1 loss to Croatia in Orlando, Florida, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Dou\u00e9 scored in the 29th minute. Marcus Thuram added a goal off a cross from Maghnes Akliouche before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Dou\u00e9&#8217;s second goal came in the 56th with an assists from, Thuram, before J\u00e1minton Campaz closed the gap for Colombia in the 77th.<\/p>\n<p>France opens the World Cup in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on June 16 against Senegal in Group I. Colombia opens against Uzbekistan in Mexico City in Group K on June 17.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANDOVER, Md. (AP) \u2014 D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 scored a pair of goals and France defeated Colombia 3-1 on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[223,311,69,16,5,18,202,112,225,17,21,19,217,190,15,310],"class_list":{"0":"post-264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-bremer","10":"tag-colombia","11":"tag-croatia","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-hugo-ekitike","14":"tag-jaminton-campaz","15":"tag-kylian-mbappe","16":"tag-les-bleus","17":"tag-maghnes-akliouche","18":"tag-marcus-thuram","19":"tag-olivier-giroud","20":"tag-real-madrid","21":"tag-senegal","22":"tag-uzbekistan","23":"tag-washington-commanders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}