This Saturday July 18 will see Didier Deschamps lead the France team for the last time. After 14 years of good and loyal service – and a second world champion star earned in 2018 – the Bayonne technician will bow out after a small World Cup final. Facing Argentina or England on the Miami side.
In the process, the boss of the French Football Federation (FFF) Philippe Diallo will undoubtedly formalize the arrival at the helm of Zinedine Zidane. After five consecutive years of endless waiting for the end of his merengue era. On condition, however, that everything is tied up contractually. Which is still not the case at this time.
Just a week ago, on July 8, the joint committee which brings together the Senate and the National Assembly capped the remuneration of managers and employees of sports federations within the framework of the famous law on the governance of professional sport. A salary cap set at 450,000 euros gross per year. Well below the legitimate claims of a Blues coach.
The decision-making Minister of Sports
As a reminder, Didier Deschamps at the head of the French team earned 300,000 euros per month – excluding bonuses. Zinedine Zidane logically will not win less a priori. The FFF will therefore have to refer to the Minister of Sports, Marina Ferrari, the only one authorized to issue an exemption to break the salary ceiling and allow Philippe Diallo to offer the former Blues playmaker the emoluments consistent with his future position.
The promulgation of the said law tabled last week is expected for Monday or Tuesday. And there is little chance that Zinedine Zidane will have signed his French contract by then. This Wednesday, Marina Ferrari repeated that it did not belong to the Minister of Sports “ to position oneself on the choice of the coach
“, while admitting that the 1998 Ballon d’Or had ” a good profile » to take over from Didier Deschamps. A potential green light for the exemption.
