EIs this the sign of a form of shortness of breath, of a weariness that does not dare to speak its name? Our national “DD” therefore announces his departure from the French team at the end of his contract with the French Football Federation, in the summer of 2026, after the next World Cup, organized in the United States, Mexico and in Canada.
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Too early? Why this hasty communication, as if the most successful coach in the history of French football (165 matches), the man of all the trophies, wanted to get rid of a weight that had been weighing him down for months?
Most observers had noted that something was no longer working very well in the Deschamps machinery. His usual detractors attacked the mortal boredom that his team exuded in each of its outings, its game system locked like a high security prison. There were also those who criticized him for having abandoned power to the superstar Kylian Mbappé, to the ogreesque ambitions of the kid from Bondy to want to direct everything, to organize the team’s play for his sole benefit.
ALSO READ PSG, Blues, Real: Kylian Mbappé’s dark yearAnd, inevitably, the coach’s management of the other players in the Blues group was weakened. In terms of image, Generalissimo DD was no longer a maximum leader, but an advisor subject to the whims of the star who has now left for Real Madrid.
-Ambient unease
The reality is, of course, more nuanced. But everyone saw the uneasiness with the downgrading of the favorite of the Blues supporters, Antoine Griezmann, cornerstone and custodian of the play of the France team, sent back to the bench more often than not, wandered around at all times. positions on the ground, to the great surprise of all the commentators.
Griezmann, with his porcelain touch, looked like a ghost. The fault lies with Dédé, whose management was increasingly vague, as if the brilliant and skillful coach no longer had the keys to the game. Some claimed that, despite the thousand titles he held and that no other could never, one day, equal, he had an insoluble problem: the link with players of a generation that he understood less and less. A generation of pure mercenaries, manufactured in batteries in standardized training centers, like products to be profitable as quickly as possible in the European championships, tossed from one club to another.
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In this ultraliberal context, the love of jerseys has taken a hit in the wing. The voluntary departure of Antoine Griezmann from the Blues was the harbinger of this malaise. As always, the Atlético de Madrid player left on tiptoe, with elegance, without one word being louder than the other, but everyone understood that a page had been turned, that a generation was bowing out, that it was necessary to make way.
It was undoubtedly the departure of the will-o’-the-wisp from the Blues which precipitated the announcement of Didier Deschamps. And he is an early retiree who will therefore coach the Blues on Yankee soil in a little over a year. What will be his authority to manage what looks like a parenthesis before the probable arrival of his successor, Zinédine Zidane? And above all, what gaming system will it offer to French supporters, desperate by the soporific spectacle offered for more than two years? What if, with this early exit visa, Dédé surprised us by advocating a breathtaking game, focused on attack, speed, changes of pace? What does he have to lose? He has already won everything.
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