Double world champion, as a player then as a coach, Didier Deschamps embarked on the perilous exercise of comparing the two titles.
Didier Deschamps forever marked the history of French football. He is the only man from France involved in our country’s two world titles, as a player in 1998, then as a coach in 2018. Even if his way of getting his teams to play does not always arouse enthusiasm, the Investigated titles command respect, especially since he also found himself in the final of Euro 2016, and in the final of the 2022 World Cup. But only the victories are beautiful and Didier Deschamps admits to having lived his share of emotion with these two world titles. With however a clear preference for that of 1998, where as a player, one has the impression of having reached the Holy Grail of his sport by winning the World Cup.
Deschamps was on top of the world in 1998
“ Today, people who are over 30 or 40 years old are more marked by what they experienced in 1998. But young people did not experience it, it is good that they had 2018 and they are identify with the players who are present today. The joy is the same, the happiness is the same, but obviously between the two positions, the best life is the first. But when you are a professional football player, and you wear the jersey of the France team and you win the world title, you are on top of the world because there is nothing that is above “, delivered the national coach, in a position that can be understood given the emotion aroused by the first world title of the Blues in 1998. And as a coach or coach, a career is logically much longer. The proof, Didier Deschamps could play 4 World Cups at the head of the France team, with 2014, 2018, 2022 and probably 2026 as provided for in his contract.
