Didier Deschamps, the questions after a shock announcement

« You will see, as with departing political figures, people hostile to Didier will find in him all the qualities in the world, from now on. » The confidence comes from someone close to the coach, whose announcement of his departure Tuesday evening had the effect of a bomb in the football world. After a mandate started in 2012, the 56-year-old technician, legend of French sport, will bow out on the Blues bench at the end of the 2026 World Cup, if the Blues qualify.

The end of a dynasty and almost fourteen years at the head of one of the greatest nations in the world with a track record that any technician would dream of. The weight of time, wear and tear or criticism, but above all the feeling of having reached the end of the story, have tipped the scales in the mind of the main person concerned.

Why announce his departure now?

« It will be 2026. It will stop there, because it has to stop at some point. In my head it’s very clear. » Didier Deschamps spoke on TF1 on Wednesday – in a sequence recorded on Monday – to mark the end of his adventure in blue. « I did my time too, with the same desire, the same passion to maintain the French team at the highest level, but 2026 is very good »he admits, obviously moved.

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