Football – Didier Deschamps announced that he would leave his position as coach of the France team after the 2026 World Cup. To take over the Blues, all eyes are on Zinédine Zidane
By picking up her phone while jogging to wish a happy new year 2025 in several languages to all her followers, Zinédine Zidane could have concluded with something other than a little “And that’s all, right? “. No, it’s not all Yazid. Because 2025 is the start of a new era for the former number 10 of the France team. The one that will lead him in 2026, after a catastrophic World Cup, at the head of the Blues, to replace Didier Deschamps.
DD announced it this Wednesday. The 1998 and 2018 world champion will leave his position as coach at the end of the World Cup in Canada, the United States and Mexico after fourteen years of unchallenged reign. And the problem linked to his successor already seems to be resolved. Even if we are not, yet, in a monarchy by divine right, the Almighty should finally take control of the Blues, as his ex-teammate at the Girondins and in the selection Bixente Lizarazu explained on TF1:
He’s the natural candidate. He said it, he dreams of the France team. Now things are clear, the logical next step is Zinédine Zidane. The position that he really likes is that of coach, so for me, it’s the logical next step.
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