Didier Deschamps’ press conference on the eve of the Nations League match between Belgium and France was disrupted by the presence… of a butterfly! The little flying creature came to circle around the coach, which made him laugh.
“It’s not Koh Lanta here!” From the top of his platform, Didier Deschamps was attacked… by a butterfly! Present at a press conference this Sunday on the eve of the Nations League match between Belgium and France on Monday evening, the Blues coach was surprised by the little flying beast, to the point of stopping several times to chase it.
Relive the press conference live.
While answering a question about Manu Koné, Deschamps pauses for the first time, noting the presence of the butterfly: “I am attacked by a butterfly!” A journalist explains to him that he has been present since the start of the press conference and the coach replies: “Ah okay… It’s not Koh Lanta here!”
“The butterfly is not a bad luck charm”
A few minutes later, new intervention from the little beast, in the middle of a question about the rivalry with Belgium. “Ah that’s it,” smiled the coach when he saw the butterfly return. “He’s a man from the countryside, the Neuilly countryside!” Deschamps even goes so far as to push him away as he returns to his shoulders, a little disgusted by the presence of the butterfly.
While the thorny question of the Kylian Mbappé case and his night out in Sweden has just been asked, a journalist also tries to revive Didier Deschamps by laughing at the butterfly. “Is it a Belgian butterfly? Isn’t it in the colors of Belgium? Isn’t it black, yellow and red?” The coach smiles and replies: “Oh no, the butterfly is not a bad luck charm, it’s life.”
