Dugarry returns to his complicated relationship with the Blues coach

Real inseparable. While many had forgotten the short passage of Christophe Dugarry in Italy, the Transalpine press, she never forgot it. First executioner with the Girondins of Bordeaux, AC Milan, one evening in March 1996 in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, then player of the Rossoneri the following season, “Long»Was interviewed in the columns of La Gazzetta dello Sport, This Wednesday, as for his memories as a player, his relationship to Italy to his relationship with the French team.

Questioned during this interview, on his relationship with current coach Didier Deschamps, the RMC Sport consultant confirmed orally what was already known in the corridors of Clairefontaine. An icy relationship to say the least between the two 1998 world champions which reached its peak a few weeks before Euro 2016: “Make peace with Deschamps? It will never happen. We did not appreciate himself as players, but he really got angry because I criticized him for not having selected Benzema for Euro 2016. And Didier, either you are with him, or you are against him (…) ”

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For his part, Didier Deschamps announced as “behind” from the 1998 World Champions group, where he denied in an interview dedicated to Figaro did not want to detail the slightest trace of quarrel with Christophe Dugarry: “It’s true, for a while, I put myself in parentheses for the good of the group too. (If it is because of his relationship with Christophe Dugarry ? ) It is not only because of this (…).»

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Often returned to the decisions of “DD” since his appointment as coach of the Blues, Dugarry has never put his tongue in his pocket in terms of judging Deschamps. However, the former Bordeaux wanted to salute the “wise decisionFrom the Bayonnais to announce his departure from the French team, after the 2026 World Cup: “It means a lot of things and I think you must also thank him. While hoping that 2026 is going well for this last competition. For France, for him, for the players. I can’t wait for things to move forward.»

Also returned to the future of the Blues, Christophe Dugarry could not help praising the future, according to him, radiant from the French team under the selection of Zinedine Zidane, natural candidate to take up the torch: “He must become. Because it would be logical and the whole country is expected. With him, everything will be much more beautiful. His football, both winning and spectacular, will give supporters the pleasure of the game. ”