Between Didier Deschamps and his former teammates from the France team, the break is well and truly complete.
A few days before the Euro, Didier Deschamps is obviously entirely focused on the Blues’ entry into contention against Austria. Last April, however, the coach had time to engage in a (long) question-and-answer exercise for Le Figaro. And this time, it was former players who asked the questions. Not just any of them since all the former French European champions were called upon, those from 1984 as well as those from 2000.
But according to the daily newspaper, many former players did not want to play the game. “I’m not interested”, “I don’t want to ask him any questions”, “it’s better to do it without me”, justified certain refractories, Le Figaro obviously refraining from giving the names.
The scathing response to Dugarry
However, if many Blues from 1984 appear among the questions asked – Alain Giresse, Maxime Bossis, Yvon Le Roux, Joël Bats, Luis Fernandez or Jean-Marc Ferreri – there are only three 2000 European champions to have seen their questions selected: Bixente Lizarazu, Vincent Candela and Christophe Dugarry, the latter being known to have become the former midfielder’s best enemy for several years.
The former Bordeaux player did not miss the opportunity to scratch his former captain. “How do you explain the catastrophic 75 minutes of the final against Argentina? “, he asked her, then trying to find out if there had been any “failures in preparation”. Enough to annoy the native of Bayonne. “It would have been better not to ask him the question, given his objectivity…”he whispered, adding: “He should look at all his matches with the France team where he could have had an identical analysis. »
