The French team was traveling to Nantes on Wednesday evening to play the first of its last two preparatory matches before the 2026 World Cup. While his men lost to Ivory Coast (1-2), Didier Deschamps was still entitled to a vibrant tribute from his former audience at FC Nantes.
With the Irrésistibles Français, the spectators present at the Beaujoire stadium therefore celebrated the French coach in the seventh minute of the match. Seven, like the number that the former captain of the Blues wore with the national team during his playing career. A moment that particularly touched him. From his bench, he greeted the public and did not hide his emotion, usually so modest.
Once the match was over, he was invited to comment on this moment on TF1. “It all started here more than forty years ago. Through the people I was able to see again, my beginnings here. I know what I owe. I will always be grateful to this club because it gave me everything on a sporting level. And human too because I was less than fifteen years old when I arrived here. »
Didier Deschamps talks about his wife
And Didier Deschamps lets himself go a little more than usual by talking very briefly about his private life.
“I met my wife here. There is the adventure as a teenager at the time, then a man and then sportingly too. It’s always a pleasure to come back here. »
Strong words from the man who will turn the page on the France team after the 2026 World Cup. In the meantime, he will play one last friendly match against Northern Ireland. It will be next Monday (9:10 p.m.) at the Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Lille.
