As revealed by L’Équipe this Tuesday evening, Didier Deschamps intends to announce the end of his mandate in the French team in 2026. The first words of the Blues coach were revealed by LCI on January 8.
This is a huge event and an announcement that no one really expected and yet, it seems that this is being confirmed. This Tuesday, January 7 in the evening, the daily The Team dropped the bomb. Didier Deschamps intends to leave the French football team at the end of the 2026 World Cup, which will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico. It is therefore an incredible page in the history of French sport which will be turned as the 98 world champion, who owns a property overlooking the sea with a view of the Glénans archipelago, has left his mark on the Blues.
Under the reign of Didier Deschamps, teammates Kylian Mbappé and Antoine Griezmann, who retired internationally at the end of 2024, have dominated world football with two World Cup finals, including one won in 2018 and a Euro final in 2016. After this announcement, certainly felt like an explosion by supporters of the Tricolores, rumors are rife as to who will be able to succeed him as coach of the Blues. The name of Zinedine Zidane obviously comes up repeatedly, as his shared history with the selection makes him a natural candidate for this role.
A “clear” decision in the head of Didier Deschamps
After this revelation, new information reached us this Wednesday, January 8 in the morning from LCI. The announcement made by the man whose son Dylan treated himself to an incredible engagement party with the sublime Mathilde, will come today around 1 p.m. in Marie-Sophie Lacarrau’s television news on TF1. Accompanied by Brigitte Macron to talk about the Yellow Pieces operation, the coach took the opportunity to release the information of his departure. “I’m not here to make an announcement but it will be 2026”says Didier Deschamps, before confirming his decision: “I have been here since 2012, I am 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.”
An unexpected decision, but which closes a great chapter for Didier Deschamps at the head of the Blues, hoping that he ends with a new victory in 2026!
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