My vote goes to Stéphane Guivarc'h-France & Newcastle United
Played for France in d WorldCup Final 1998 and for d life of me, ah doe understand why Aime Jacquet continue to play he instead of Thiery Henry....
Henry started the majority of Frances games in that tournament and was a winger early on in his career (where he scored most of his goals).
Both of you are wrong and right at the same time.
Henry started 3 games, and Guivarch started 3. They both were on the bench for the meaningless third group game against Denmark. However, whereas Henry was the starter in the group stages and the 2nd round match against Paraguay, and performed well (I think he was top scorer in the tournament for a while), Jacquet benched him after the Paraguay match and gave Guivarch the go ahead.
All in all, the man who lose out the most was Trezeguet.
I could also be wrong, but I believe it is commonly agreed that the "shittong" on that France 98 squad was Leboeuf.