Present in the Grandes Gueules du Sport, this Sunday on RMC, Pascal Dupraz defended Didier Deschamps, victim according to him of excessive criticism, but also of pro-Zidane “lobbying”.
The Blues are no longer popular. Like the audience achieved by the Tricolores on Thursday evening during the Nations League match against Israel (3.9 million viewers, the worst of the year 2024), the French team ‘excites the public more. Didier Deschamps is not immune to this drop in popularity. After a very disappointing Euro 2024, particularly in terms of play, the French coach has never been so criticized.
“The disenchantment (towards Deschamps and the Blues) is simply lobbying,” said Pascal Dupraz in Les Grandes Gueules du Sport, Sunday on RMC. “Because everyone dreams, me first and foremost, that Zidane is the coach of the France team. The disenchantment starts from there. We smash Deschamps with all our might, we say every time that the France team is boring… Boring? But often winning, whatever people say, and not that boring, if we look at Football in its broad sense. Football today is a lot of strategy. City, we get bored sometimes, so we have to say that we lobby.”
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“We will realize the day we don’t win, that it wasn’t so bad…”
Especially since according to the former TFC coach, Deschamps has not lost control of the France team at all, despite the headwinds. “Maybe he’s getting exasperated because he’s constantly getting beat up,” he continues. “You also have to put yourself in his place, it must be difficult compared to what he has to convey in front of his players. The players also read, hear everything that is said about Deschamps. So by force, it must also to make progress in their minds, they perhaps also, I say perhaps, want to see this change (of coach) since we talk about it every day.
Pascal Dupraz nevertheless believes that the Basque “has not lost his touch”. “He does his job very well, generations pass and he always gets results. We forget him too much. And we will realize the day we don’t win, that he wasn’t so bad…” Les Bleus challenge Belgium on Monday evening in the League of Nations.
ABr with the Grandes Gueules du Sport
