This is the soap opera at the start of 2025, it should extend until the summer of 2026… Didier Deschamps announced this week that he would leave his position as coach of theFrench team at the end of his contract, after the World Cup in America.
After 14 years and good and loyal service, Deschamps will leave his post. And everything suggests that his successor will be one of his former teammates from France 1998. If Thierry Henry emerges as a credible outsider, one name obviously sounds obvious: Zinédine Zidane.
“Thierry Henry will be the next coach of the France team”
For his aura, his track record, his current situation (he has been free since 2021 and his departure from Real Madrid), his popularity rating in France and his eternal link with the Blues, Zinédine Zidane seems destined for the position for many observers… the exception of Cyril Hanouna. As usual, the latter wanted to take the opposite view in his show Touche pas à mon poste…