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2018 world champion and 2022 vice-world champion, Didier Deschamps will continue the adventure as coach of the French football team until 2026, he announced on Saturday morning.
End of suspense. The contract of Didier Deschamps at the head of the France team has been extended until 2026, announced the coach of the Blues during the General Assembly of the French Football Federation, Saturday January 7 in Paris.
Arriving at the helm of the France team in 2012, Didier Deschamps was at the end of his contract at the end of the World Cup in Qatar where the Blues reached the final, won by Argentina.
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“I am going to announce something which is a great pleasure for me, namely that my president has decided to extend me until 2026”, declared the coach from the rostrum of the AG, where he was welcomed by a standing ovation. “I thank the President [de la FFF Noël Le Graët, NDLR] for his continued support and continued trust, he added. This is something that is essential in the functioning of the France team.”
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Didier Deschamps, 54, who wanted from the start to obtain a lease until the Mondial-2026 (in the United States, Canada and Mexico), therefore won his case while Noël Le Graët only wanted to extend it until at Euro-2024 in Germany.
The 1998 world champion has the longest life in this position ahead of Michel Hidalgo, who remained eight years and six months (March 1976 – June 1984), the record for matches on the French bench (138, far from the 79 of the previous record held by Raymond Domenech) and, above all, the most beautiful prize list.
Appointed two years after the fiasco of Knysna at the Mondial-2010 and a short term of Laurent Blanc who only made Euro-2012, “DD” put the blue ship back afloat with constant progress: a quarter-final at the Brazilian World-2014 (lost 1-0 against Germany, future winner), a final lost against Portugal at Euro-2016 in France and the world title in Russia in 2018 against Croatia, before a new final in Qatar in 2022. His only failure was at Euro-2021, where the Blues were eliminated in 8e final by Switzerland.
With AFP