Before him, only three of his sixteen predecessors had served the duration of a presidential term – at least five years in office. Michel Hidalgo (1976-1984), Aimé Jacquet (1993-1998) and Raymond Domenech (2004-2010) have long been supplanted by Didier Deschamps. In office since 2012, the Basque, who announced, Wednesday January 8, his departure at the end of the 2026 World Cup, risks keeping the longevity record of a coach of the French men’s Football team for a long time .
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His fourteen years on the blue bench will place him in the firmament of the history of French football, and position him in that of world football, just behind the German Joachim Löw (fifteen years, from 2006 to 2021), but far from the record of the Argentinian Guillermo Stabile, at the helm of the Albiceleste from 1939 to 1960. The former captain of the France team firmly occupies the position since he replaced, in 2012, his former partner of the Blues, Laurent Blanc, at the request of the former president of the French Football Federation (FFF), Noël Le Graët.
-The double world champion – a title as a player in 1998 and another as a coach, twenty years later – took advantage of his presence on the TF1 television news on Wednesday, alongside Brigitte Macron, on the occasion of the 2025 edition of the “Yellow Coins” operation (which he has sponsored since 2019), to publicly clarify information that was hardly in doubt. “I served my time with the same desire, the same passion, to maintain the French team at the highest level. You have to know how to say stop”declared Didier Deschamps in a pre-recorded interview, broadcast Wednesday morning on TF1.
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