Didier Deschamps still has a few months to spend at the head of the France team. Once the 2026 World Cup is over, the current coach of the Blues will find himself free as the air. Free to accept the proposal that suits you best. It could, for example, be the Italian selection to which he did not close the door Thursday evening at a press conference. Not good news for Daniel Riolo.
“ I’m getting back into Italian, you never know. » This is the little sentence that Didier Deschamps dropped to the transalpine journalist who asked him if he would not be interested in leading the Nazionale. And that’s what Daniel Riolo reacted to on RMC. “I tell you with all my heart, I would experience it as a personal tragedy. » Born to parents who arrived from Sicily in the early 1960s, the journalist is logically attached to Italian football. A national football which has suffered for several years and which once again missed qualification for a World Cup in 2026.
But even despite the experience and success encountered by Didier Deschamps with the Blues, Daniel Riolo does not wish to attend such a marriage. “I say it sincerely. I know it’s possible because he has a past here, which he knows well and he was at Juve. He is known and everything, but I would experience it as a personal tragedy. »
Daniel Riolo does not want Didier Deschamps at the head of the Nazionale
And to conclude: “But that doesn’t mean anything, it’s just my opinion. » In any case, there will be many proposals arriving on Didier Deschamps’ desk. Already in the good books of Saudi Arabia, he will be spoiled for choice for the rest of a career that he has confirmed he does not want to stop.
In the meantime, it is in the United States that he will conclude the longest chapter of his post-career as a professional footballer. He hopes to achieve his dream of a new world champion title with the France team, he who participated in the first as a player (1998) and the second as coach (2018).
