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Zinédine Zidane, here on the Real Madrid bench during a La Liga match against Valencia, May 22, 2021.
FOOTBALL – He says stop. Didier Deschamps confirmed on TF1 this Wednesday January 8 that he would leave his position as coach of the France team in 2026. “ It will stop there, because it has to stop at some point”he confided, he who believes he has “has its time” at the head of the Blues who he made world champions in 2018.
Shortly after this unexpectedly timed announcement, all eyes immediately focused on the natural candidate for the position, for whom he had been seeking for years: Zinédine Zidane. The French football icon has in fact never hidden his desire to one day lead the Blues, he who has been patiently biding his time since the end of his second adventure with Real Madrid in 2021.
“Obviously he’s the natural candidate and he’s said it, he dreams of the France team. (…) The logical next step is Zinédine Zidane”reacted his former teammate in the French team, Bixente Lizarazu, in the morning of TF1 this Wednesday. “He did not take a coaching position because he cannot take any coaching position, and the coaching position that he really likes is the position of coach, so for for me it’s the logical next step”he added.
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Christophe Dugarry “hope it will happen one day”
Christophe Dugarry, who also worked with the Blues and the Girondins de Bordeaux, has the same wish. “Of course we all hope that after 2026 it will be him, but after that (it will be) his choice”he commented in L’After Foot on RMC Tuesday evening. “ It’s a wish that I, personally, have had for a long time. I hope it will happen one day, in 2026. I wish it from the bottom of my heart. »
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On social networks, Internet users greeted the news with memes.
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Others are waiting for only one thing: to see Kylian Mbappé being coached by “Zizou”.
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Zinédine Zidane also has the advantage of facing very little competition. Almost no other name is currently emerging for the job description, except that of Thierry Henry, also currently available and who does not hide his attachment to the France team. But a downside could slow down his candidacy: having slammed the door of the Bleuets after the Paris Olympics, while the president of the FFF Philippe Diallo hoped to see him continue his mission, recalls The Parisian.
Didier Deschamps will now end his lease after – if there is participation – the 2026 World Cup organized in the United States, Canada and Mexico. In 2028, the first major tournament for Zinédine Zidane, if he were to be appointed coach, would be the Euro in the United Kingdom and Ireland, after possible qualification.
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