No scoop but a confirmation. Invited to speak this Sunday in the show Telefoot, on TF1, the president of the French Federation Noël Le Graët repeated that he had planned to meet Didier Deschamps to discuss the rest of his adventure at the head of the France team after the premature exit from the road at the Euro. “We must not throw away everything that has been done, on the contrary, we have young players with a lot of qualities, we have a coach who has enormous qualities. We have to do a lucid analysis of what did not stick, we will do it together this week, ”he said.
Relaunched on a specific date, the boss of the FFF remained elusive. “It will be during the week, in Guingamp, it’s quieter here,” added the boss of the 3F, alluding to his historic stronghold in the Côtes d’Armor. “We will surely spend a day discussing, he added, refusing to say if the coach retained his confidence. First of all, he’s a friend, he’s someone who has never disappointed since I took him. He is faithful, organized, it is the first failure ”.
The Swiss failure “does not deserve to question everything”, tempers NLG
On the French bench since 2012, Deschamps had until then experienced a constant rise with a quarter-final at the 2014 World Cup, a final at Euro-2016 and then the coronation at the 2018 World Cup. The former coach of Monaco, Juve and Marseille is under contract until the World Cup in Qatar, scheduled for November and December 2022.
Regarding the rest, “we must always agree to continue, to have the same objectives, the federation first and the coach then,” continued Le Graët. The former mayor and president of the Guingamp club once again said he was “disappointed” by the elimination on June 28 against the “Nati”, while the French world champions were leading by two goals ten minutes from the end of the regular time.
“On this last match, we have ten minutes where we completely miss it. It does not deserve to question everything “, he tempered, recalling that France had finished” first of the most complicated group “and evolved under a” significant “heat in Budapest.