It is a page in the history of the French team which is about to turn: Didier Deschamps is living his last months in the shoes of the coach of the France team.
According to several media, “DD” has decided to put an end to this adventure in 2026 at the end of his contract, after the World Cup in North America if the Blues ever manage to qualify for the global meeting including the qualifiers have not yet started.
Deschamps had been thinking about such an outcome for a while and many fans of the Blues were calling for his withdrawal, believing that he had confiscated the selection and that, beyond the results, the game played proved extremely boring. The semi-final of the last Euro did not mask a form of weariness within the general public, fueled by the clumsy declarations of the former OM coach, who did not hesitate to encourage people to change their approach. channel if the show did not suit them.
He continued to take refuge behind the results which offered him a totem of immunity and allowed him to stretch for fourteen years an adventure which began in July 2012, just after his three seasons at the head of OM. Under his mandate, the French team won a second world crown, in 2018 in Russia against Croatia, before failing in the final four years later, in Qatar against Argentina, on penalties. The Blues came very close to a European title at home in 2016, only beaten in overtime by Portugal.
Guest of TF1 Wednesday
Deschamps (56 years old) will announce this decision on Wednesday January 8 on TF1, partner of the FFF and the French team, during an interview (recorded Monday) with Brigitte Macron as part of the yellow coin operation. His inner circle had been in the know for several weeks and was therefore not surprised by such an announcement. Which does not change anything in the ambitions, intact and overflowing, of the winner of the 93 Champions League: to succeed, first, in dismissing Croatia, in March in the quarter-finals of the League of Nations in order to qualify for the Final Four of this competition which he won in 2021, before looking ahead to the 2026 World Cup with, initially, a qualification for the seventh final phase of a major tournament before, why not, run for a new title. The last one.
Re-elected at the head of the Federation in December, Philippe Diallo can, in any case, launch the construction of this heavy succession now. Because whatever the identity of the future technician and even if all eyes are on Zinédine Zidane, the mission will prove extremely complex.
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