Who will succeed Didier Deschamps as coach of the French team after the 2026 World Cup? The question is on everyone's lips but only one answer is essential: Zinedine Zidane. Free of any contract since his departure from Real Madrid in May 2021, the 1998 world champion already said that he had the ambition to lead the Blues one day. And the moment finally seems to come for “Zizou”.
Unless a huge surprise from women's football?
So football Questioned Sonia Bompastor on this subject. But this is not a project for the current Chelsea coach.
“I have never asked myself the question but it seems completely impossible to me. There are so many other candidates who are more credible than me!, she said. Well, thinking about it, if you published the post sheet, there are bound to be boxes that I would check. »»
“From there to say that it is a personal will and that I think about it every day, we are far awaycontinues the former tricolor international (44), which has 156 selections and 19 goals in the Bleues jersey. I already coach at the highest level in girls and, apart from a media point of view, I do not necessarily see valuation to be changed in boys. »» Another position could however interest him much more.
Sonia Bompastor's ambitions
The former OL defenseman would not actually say no if he was offered the same function as a French women's team, currently led by Laurent Bonadei. “I have no career plan but I have never hidden either that I would study the possibility of becoming a selector if an opportunity presented itself one day”says the one who recently revealed to be in a relationship with her assistant in Chelsea, Camille Abily.
In his autobiography A football lifepublished in February, Sonia Bompastor comes out of silence about her relationship with her ex-co-team. “This is still a subject on which today we are not quite comfortablehe told The team. Finally, we realized that having lied for thirteen years, it's a heavy secret to keep. With hindsight and our different experiences, we tell ourselves that it should have been revealed from the start. »»
