2024-07-17 08:31:15
I failed with Zidane, Benzema and Mbappe
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The head of the football federation said that Deschamps “achieved the goal” and continues to work. If the goal is soporific football with crooked shots and a defeat to a 16-year-old schoolboy, as well as the failure of Griezmann and Mbappe’s preparation, then Didier should be called a champion. However, failures in major tournaments are nothing new for France. At the 2002 World Cup, they finished in last place in a group with Senegal, Denmark and Uruguay.
In 2004, a great team failed in a match with Greece. In 2006 and 2016, although they were twice favorites in the finals against Italy and Portugal, they made stupid mistakes. In the German match, Zidane headbutted Materazzi. He hit for a reason, you can’t insult your opponent’s sister, but he let France down. In 2016, coach Deschamps planned a game against Portugal ineptly. Let us recall that Ronaldo’s team barely made it to the final.
They were third in the group, relying on penalty shootouts in the playoffs. They could have hit the “spots” in Paris, but Eder, a striker of Lokomotiv’s caliber, brought Santos the European Cup. Powerful France fails too often, if you remember the squad and opponents. You can justify coach Blanc in 2012. His base was much weaker than Spain’s. No questions. But even the defeat to Germany at the 2014 World Cup is the sin of coach Deschamps.
You have Varane, Evra, Pogba, Griezmann and Benzema on the pitch, and you can’t score one goal against the Germans? Even today’s Spain is not so invulnerable as to forgive France for the result in the semi-finals. But the experienced team’s elimination was deserved. Mbappe honestly summed up his game, and this conclusion can be extended to many in the French team:
In football you are either good or you are not. My performance at the Euro was a failure. I wanted to become European champion… Now I will go on holiday, have a good rest, I need it, and then I will start a new life.
France could have lost to England in two finals
Even if they had beaten Yamal now, or met England instead of Croatia in the 2018 World Cup final in Moscow, Mbappe could have been disappointed both times. France were good in the final in Luzhniki, but the level of their opponents contributed to that. With all due respect to the Croatians, Dalic’s team was knocked out by a not very well-organized Spain after a 3:5 shootout at the last Euro. France has also participated in high-scoring finals.
But the defeat to Argentina is the “merit” of Kolo Muani, who failed to capitalize on a one-on-one, and coach Deschamps. You can’t lie that Didier is a simple and wise man. He always has conflicts in the French national team. Right now with Griezmann. Antoine came to the tournament exhausted. Of course, squabbles with the coach did not help him urgently get into shape. The coach could not cope without a playmaker, passes from young Pogba and dashes from young Mbappe.
No one argues with the level of French footballers. Even the bully Rabiot, who decided to tease Yamal and in response received a checkmate from a 16-year-old boy, knows how to play luxurious football. Only England has 4 full squads, like the French national team. For example, goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier from Lille, who in a couple of years could be an elite goalkeeper, did not make it to Euro 2024. Yoro, an 18-year-old defender from the “Great Danes”, refuses Manchester United.
The English are ready to pay what Lille asks, but the guy who is not in the first team of France wants to play for Real, like Varane before him. Laporte and Le Normand reached the final of the Euro with Spain, because Deschamps refused them. But the snag is that the victory in Luzhniki and success in the League of Nations with Benzema did not remove the stamp of great losers from the French. We know that they were lucky in the 1998 World Cup, the Brazilian Ronaldo had an attack before the final.
France also had luck in the Euro 2000 playoffs, where they beat tough opponents. In the final, there was a “golden goal” by Trezeguet. But the expert on Russian TV would miss in the penalty shootout against Italy at the 2006 World Cup six years later. It turns out that in the 21st century, which started on January 1, 2001, France has had 6 out of 6 failures at the Euro and 3 at the World Cup. They also lost the finals at the World Cup twice. This is not a failure, but a major setback at a decisive moment.
The decision to keep Deschamps is stupidity and sabotage
The word “sabotage” is of French origin. “Sabot” is a wooden shoe. According to one version, the word “sabotage” was invented when weavers blocked the looms with their shoes during protests. According to another version, “sabotage” comes from the expression “to knock with a sabot”, that is, to do a bad job. Now this word means deliberate sabotage. The French decision to keep Deschamps is pure sabotage.
France have too many failures despite their strength. In 2010, they failed to get out of a group with South Africa, Mexico and Uruguay. With all due respect to Forlan, all opponents were within the power of the conflict-ridden French. But they are always quarrelling among themselves, and Deschamps showed his true class only at the 2018 World Cup. Or was it just the stars aligning there, rather than the coach doing a brilliant job? We see a weak version of a big team much more often.
Even at the 2022 World Cup, they could have lost to England in the quarter-finals if Kane had scored from the penalty spot. Or to Portugal in the semi-finals if Ronaldo, who is a couple of years younger, had ended up opposite Mbappe instead of the Moroccan team. France had a difficult path to the semi-finals of Euro 2024, but even Spain’s coolness cannot serve as an excuse when Zidane is sunbathing on the beach. Zinedine is ready to work for the French team.
Usually doesn’t take risks, but plays logical football. Not always good at transfers, but the French national team doesn’t need them. Zidane will have great assistants on his staff, everyone will want to work for the renewed team. They will bring back his friend Bettoni, who is not having a successful career as a head coach, but David is a strong assistant. France can be revived by the 2026 World Cup. Instead, they said that they are keeping Didier Deschamps.
All similar stories ended badly. Ferguson and Wenger did not work well in their last seasons at Manchester United and Arsenal. And these are rich clubs, where personnel issues are solved by transfers, and tactics are polished for many years in a row. Deschamps, Griezmann and Mbappe failed at Euro 2024. If this is not a reason to invite coach Zidane, then expect France’s tenth failure in the new century at the next World Cup.
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