End clap for Didier Deschamps and the French team. After 14 years at the head of the Blues, the coach has decided to end his adventure at the end of the 2026 World Cup. A surprising choice which marks the end of an era, but also a new chapter for French football.
“I’m not here to make an announcement, but it will be 2026. I’ve been here since 2012, I’m scheduled until 2026, the next World Cup. It will stop there because it has to stop there at some point. In my head, it’s very clear. I served my time with the same desire, the same passion to maintain the French team at the highest level. But 2026 is very good“, he recently confided on the set of the TF1 television news.
And added: “We never want it to end when it’s a beautiful thing. Afterwards, you have to know how to say stop. There is life after. I don’t know what it will be, but it will be very good too. It’s going to be 14 years, that’s a long time too. I’m not here for the records, especially for the demands. The most important thing is that the French team remains at the top where it has been for many years“.
Marie-Sophie Lacarrau surprised by the coach’s confidences
In shock, Marie-Sophie Lacarrau, who was facing Didier Deschamps during this announcement, spoke this morning in Good morning ! TF1 Morning. And according to her, “it was not planned for him to give us this scoop.“
“This interview on yellow coins has become political. You will see, Brigitte Macron talks a lot about the current situation. Does she think her husband can last until the end of his term? Did she understand the dissolution? We have all these questions with her and then, at one point, since we are talking about the end of Emmanuel Macron’s mandate in 2027, I tell Didier Deschamps that we found a small parallel between the two. Emmanuel Macron in 2027, him in 2026, would he want to continue? He begins with this response: ‘I’m not here to make an announcement.’ I’m restarting, I’m still going to try, I insist. And there, he says it surprising everyoneme first“, she remembered.
“When the interview ends, the first words come from Brigitte Macron. (…) She is very surprised and everyone around us comes closer to us and asks: ‘Didier, why now?’ And her response: ‘Because she asked me.’ Quite simply“, concluded the journalist who is already delighted with the distribution of the newspaper!
