Didier Deschamps can be calm. Despite a complicated year in 2024, to say the least, his future on the bench of the France team is assured. And this whatever the result of the elections for the presidency of the French Football Federation. Pierre Samsonoff, opponent of Philippe Diallo, the current boss of the 3F, in fact hears “respect Deschamps’ contract”.
“I think we must respect current contracts and I think we are in a phase where Didier is rebuilding a team for 2026 and, indeed, there have been more attractive periods in the France team but I I am certain that we will be competitive in 2026”he confided to the microphone of After Foot on RMC, just regretting the episodes of recent months with Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappé.
The Didier Deschamps problem is not recent
“He struggles a lot but he also wins quite a bit all the same. At the same time, your problem with Didier Deschamps is not completely recent. Even when the French team was world champion, you were not a fan of Didier Deschamps. he told his interlocutors, adding: “Twelve years is a long time, but a little stability in football isn’t bad either.”
“I find that the fact that we can stay in football for the long term is an original choice and not necessarily a bad choice,” he insisted, refusing to see any similarity with Joachim Low, whose long tenure at the helm of Germany ended badly: “Yes, but we’re not there at all, exactly. We’re not heading for a disaster here.”
