While the French team had a disappointing year in 2024, the French players would be tired of the management of Didier Descamps.
An accession to the last four of the Euro, a first place in its Nations League group and a status of number two in the FIFA rankings: the French team experienced a year 2024 that many nations could envy. However, the last few months have been the most complicated for the Blues.
Because if the vice-world champions actually pushed as far as the semi-final at the Euro, they were hardly attractive, having a series of draws or narrow successes until suffering the domination of Spain. And the Blues also bit the dust at home against Germany in a friendly this winter or Italy in the Nations League at the start of the school year.
“If we could move on…”
The French team is therefore still as minimalist in its game and the results no longer follow. Enough to earn Didier Deschamps numerous criticisms. Nothing could be more normal in his eyes. Blame it on the weariness that set in after twelve years at the helm of the Blues. “I’m realistic, it’s been twelve years… Let people get tired of seeing my face…”he confided after the last match of the year in Italy.
And the observation is shared by Daniel Riolo, who is clearly campaigning for a change of coach. “If we could move on. 12 years is a long time, it’s longer than General de Gaulle was in power,” he said at the microphone of RMC. And according to him, this weariness also concerns the players of the France team. “On the ground, many want to say thank you and goodbye,” he said while Antoine Griezmann preferred to slam the door of the Blues this fall by retiring from international duty.
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