Guest of the show The Evening Teamthe president of the French Football Federation Philippe Diallo raised the case of his coach Didier Deschamps.
At the head of the French team since 2012, coach Didier Deschamps has a good track record in terms of results, including a world champion title acquired in 2018, a Euro final contested in 2016, as well as a World Cup final in 2022. However, Deschamps attracts a lot of criticism due to the poverty of the game offered by the Blues. Guest of the show L'Équipe du Soir on the L'Équipe channel, the president of the French Football Federation Philippe Diallo was keen to defend the French technician.
« When I arrived, Didier Deschamps had just re-signed a 4-year contract. With him, we made the Euro, he is a semi-finalist. Today, we finished first in the Nations League group. We are going to play a quarter-final in March and I hope we will go a little further. Then there will be qualifying and then the 2026 World Cup. This is a question I asked him in July: was he worn out? Physically and mentally after 10 years. He asked me for a few days of reflection, of rest, and he came back telling me that he was in great shape and ready to rebuild the team. (…) My position is to put the French team and Didier Deschamps in the best conditions to succeed, and it turns out that he succeeds. So I sometimes find it excessive, strange, to want to break what he succeeds. Sometimes there is a lack of recognition for what has been accomplished. » declared the boss of the FFF.
Strong support for Didier Deschamps, who offered himself a little more serenity after the convincing victory of the French team in Italy (3-1), which allowed the Blues to take first place in group 2 of the League of Nations A.
