In an interview which will be broadcast on TF1 during the 1 p.m. news on Wednesday, the French coach, in office since 2012, confirms that he will leave the Blues bench at the end of the next World Cup.
France Télévisions – Sports Editorial
Published on 08/01/2025 09:16
Updated on 08/01/2025 09:31
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Appointed to the position of coach in 2012 to replace Laurent Blanc, Didier Deschamps confirmed, during an interview broadcast on Wednesday January 8 at 1 p.m. on TF1, that he will leave his post at the end of the 2026 World Cup, for which the Blues will have to qualify from next June or September.
“It will be 2026. I have been here since 2012, I am scheduled until 2026… the next World Cup. It will stop there, because it has to stop at some point. In my head it's very clear”he confided. “I did my time too, with the same desire, the same passion to maintain the French team at the highest level, but 2026 is very good.”
At 56 years old, the Basque will therefore end his lease at the end of the next World Cup organized in the United States, Canada and Mexico, a competition for which France is not yet qualified. In the meantime, Didier Deschamps will still have an important deadline, with the quarter-finals of the League of Nations where the Blues will face Croatia on March 20 and 23. “We never want it to stop when it’s a beautiful thing, but you have to know how to say stop. There is a life after, I don’t know what it will be, but it will be very good too”he concludes.
