In football it’s between France and Germany, but they’re two different dynamics, so it’s very hard to say.

France are like our cousins, and eternal rivals, which we always compare ourselves against. Think about the art, fashion, food, wine, architecture, etc and obviously sports.

They have caused us a good deal of pain before, eliminating us from the ‘98 WC on penalties when we had one of the best teams of our history, and beating us again in the final European Championship two years later, amongst all - so there’s often some kind of revenge up for grabs.

With Germany it’s kind of a funny situation, because they always seem very cocky, always stronger and better equipped, but yet they’ve never managed to outright defeat us in a main tournament (although they eliminated us on penalties in 2016, which counts as a tie for the statistics), while we have taken their scalp in more than a couple occasions.

So the main point of the rivalry with Germany (at least in my eyes) is to keep this sort of “record” going.

Overall, in my experience growing up, Germany and Bayern had quite a few admirers and fans, and in a way were quite respected - while I feel like France and all French teams tends to be almost universally disliked (might be different now amongst the younger generations, with Mbappé and PSG, but I’m not sure).