France and the Netherlands are playing in a World Cup international friendly match on Wednesday and the game is streaming online and starts from the Stade de France at 3 pm ET and comes as the two sides prepare for Brazil 2014 and it is less than 100 days until the worldwide tournament and all eyes will be on the nation as it gets going.
Olivier Giroud and Franck Ribéry have been the leading players during this stage and they are tops in goals while Ribéry is best in assists and the team comes in with a talented roster and they are looking to get things going ahead of their friendly schedule coming up before the World Cup and the Euro edams mostly have matches coming up with the way the pro schedules break down.
The French teams comes in after winning over Ukraine in World Cup qualifying and that came after a loss and they won 3-0 in the second match and now Ukraine and the United States are also playing on Wednesday. The team has matches against the Netherlands coming up along with Norway and Paraguay as friendly matches before the World Cup begins in Brazil and those will be stiff tests for the team as they prepare.
Robin Van Persie and Arjen Robben are the top players for Netherlands and they come in after two draws in friendly competition with Colombia and Japan and now they face off with France before games against Ecuador and then against Wales and that comes just before the start of the tournament in Brazil.
France is coming into the World Cup in Group E and they are in things with Switzerland, Ecuador and Honduras and the first match for the French will be against Honduras and that will be on ABC at Estadio Beira-Rio before the next match at Arena Fonte Nova against the Swiss. The next match comes against Ecuador and that will be from Estadio do Maracanã.
Netherlands is in a group with Spain, Chile and Mexico and that is a tough group as well, as all those teams could advance and of course Spain are the champions. The team opens with Spain and then plays against Australia next and that will be at Estadio Beira-Rio and then the team plays against Chile and that is at Arena Corinthians.
