President Macron with Noël Le Graët, boss of the FFF, during the Coupe de France final between PSG and Saint-Etienne on July 24, 2021. – Francois Mori / AP / SIPA
President Emmanuel Macron, declaring to be part of “the 68 million coaches” in France, greeted Wednesday “the good choice” of Didier Deschamps, who recalled Karim Benzema in the France team for the Euro. “I have complete confidence in Didier Deschamps: first of all, he showed that he knew how to choose a collective, that he then knew how to lead it, with results in the end. I think he made the right choices ”, underlined the Head of State during a trip to the Aube to mark the start of the reopening of sports activities.
Concerning more precisely the striker of Real Madrid, the president praised “his quality of player, the maturity which he took” and “his capacity to join this collective”. “I see the collective enthusiasm and therefore I am very happy for the players who are selected. I will have the opportunity to congratulate a few of them this evening during the final (of the Coupe de France) and I think that he (Deschamps) put us on paper the best possible team and that we must now that the alchemy is tied between them so that above all they gain it, because that is the objective. “
“Two terrible functions” in France, president and coach
Karim Benzema, 33 years old and author of an excellent season with Real Madrid, was recalled Tuesday after five and a half years of absence following his involvement in the case of the sextape of his former teammate in selection Mathieu Valbuena.
According to Emmanuel Macron, “there are two terrible functions” in France: “President of the Republic and coach of the France team” because there are “68 million people who are convinced that they had better ideas or a better selection in the lead ”. “I am one of the 68 million coaches who say to themselves every morning: I would have done this or that if I were Didier Deschamps,” he joked again.