While Noël Le Graët is slow to agree with Didier Deschamps, in a strong position to retain the head of the France team, the French Football Federation has indeed approached Zinedine Zidane.
Barring an unexpected reversal of the situation, Didier Deschamps should succeed himself. Encouraged by the good results of the Blues in Qatar, the former midfielder indeed wishes to continue the adventure at the head of the French team and the same is true of Noël Le Graët, the president of the French Federation of Soccer. However, the two men are struggling to reach an agreement. While Didier Deschamps wants to commit until 2026, the Breton leader does not want to go beyond 2024.
“We should be able to manage. But no bar. It’s not done,” had entrusted to the Parisian the boss of the 3F after meeting the tricolor coach in his Guingamp stronghold. And if an appointment was scheduled this Friday between Noël Le Graët and Jean-Pierre Bernès, the agent of the former midfielder, patience is required. “He came to Guingamp. I will see him again. We are not close to five minutes…”, he threw at The Teamconfirming that his appointment is not on the agenda for the general meeting scheduled for this Saturday.
If the maintenance of Didier Deschamps therefore seems acquired, it was quite different at the beginning of the autumn. So much so that, according to Liberation, Florence Hardouin, the general manager of the Federation visited Alain Migliaccio, Zinedine Zidane’s agent, in Switzerland. The latter, as eager as he is to take the selection in hand, had not wished to meet the leader of the Federation. “I have never called Zidane in my life contrary to what some people suggest. That would have been incorrect of me. No one around me called him for me anyway,” yet assured Noël Le Graët, last month…