France honors Ukraine's seven-year victory ... and a first loss for the new Netherlands coach

Yesterday's friendly matches witnessed great results, the most prominent of which was France and Italy showing their muscles in front of their hosts, Ukraine (7-1) and Moldova (6-0).

De Boer fell in his first test at the head of the technical administration of his country, the Netherlands, by a loss to Mexico, while Germany stumbled against Turkey 3-3.

France honored the guest interview, Ukraine, when they beat them 7-1, including a double by striker Olivier Giroud in his 100th match with the "roosters" shirt.

Giro, 34, scored his brace in the 24 and 34 minutes, raising his score to 42 goals, to become the second best scorer in the history of the national team, after Eduardo Camavinga opened the scoring in the ninth minute to become the youngest scorer in the history of the national team since the World War.

France won the first half by four after Vitaly Mikulenko scored a goal by mistake against his country's national team, before it was boosted by a hat-trick in the second half, alternating with Corinthian Tolisso (65), Kylian Mbappe (82) and Antoine Griezmann (89).

Victor Tsyegankov scored the visitors' only goal in the 53rd minute.

In turn, Italy honored the Moldavian victory with a clean hexagon, which was scored by Brian Cristante (18), Francesco Caputo (23), Stefan El Shaarawy (30 and 45 + 1), Vesislav Bosmak (37 reverse goals) and Dominico Berardi (72).

In Cologne, the German and Turkish national teams came out with a 3-3 draw.

New coach Frank de Boer fell after the Netherlands lost 1-0 to its Mexican national team by Raul Jimenez in Amsterdam.

De Boer succeeded his compatriot, Ronald Koeman, last month, who moved to Barcelona as coach, knowing that the task would be difficult for him.

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