The roles have reversed. While he had plenty of time to go about his various and varied activities for several years, Zinédine Zidane took the place of Didier Deschamps. From now on, it is he who is coach of the France team while his predecessor can in turn take advantage of his free time. And “DD” visibly takes advantage of it, while remaining close to the green rectangles.
This is how he was spotted this Saturday near Brittany. More precisely in Finistère, and even more specifically in Concarneau. The one who managed the Blues between 2012 and 2026 actually knows the place well since there is a very good friend named Jacques Piriou.
If his name is not really known to the general public, the latter is neither more nor less the president of US Concarneau, a club which is playing this season in Ligue 3. On Saturday, the Breton team welcomed, ironically, SM Caen, a club whose shareholder is a former player of the France team: a certain Kylian Mbappé.
Didier Deschamps used to US Concarneau
The meeting, which counted for the seventh day of the old National championship now renamed, saw the victory of Concarneau over its visitors from Normandy (2-0). Undefeated since the first day, the locals folded the match in the space of two short minutes, following successive goals from Jimmy Halby Touré (66th) and Stan Janno (68th). Enough to ignite the Guy-Piriou stadium.
For Stade Malherbe Caen and its coach Gaël Clichy, this is not a good operation in the race for direct promotion to Ligue 2. The team is now fifth, three points behind La Roche-sur-Yon (2nd). Concarneau, for his part, passed his opponent of the day to find himself third with the same number of points, but a fewer number of defeats. Didier Deschamps will have had a good time, far from the flashes and the microphones.
