Their fate is linked. Since a long time. Since Zinedine Zidane, a promising young midfielder from the Girondins de Bordeaux, joined Didier Deschamps at Juventus in 1996. The two champions were partners in the Old Lady club but also in the France team. With the Blues, they won everything, the World Cup in 1998 then the Euro in 2000. More than twenty years later, their future could still be linked. Because Didier Deschamps can imagine the current Real Madrid coach one day succeeding him as coach.
“That he can come full circle”
Thus, when Apolline de Malherbe asks him in an interview for BFMTV if that would make sense, DD responds tit for tat in the affirmative. “Yes, I know that it will be taken again, but it is the reality, assures the Basque. From the moment when he decided to be a coach and that he is a club coach, he can come full circle … Him like all the old players… Maybe even more him because even in our generation, there were all the players I was a part of… and Zizou. It never posed a problem for me. Zizou, c ‘is Zizou. He was part of the group with us. It was a decisive element. But afterwards, with all that he can bring in terms of notoriety … Zizou, it’s Zizou. “
Deschamps: “I do not forbid myself”
So Didier Deschamps imagines one day passing the baton to the former number 10 of the Blues. “Yes of course”, supports the current coach, who exchanges regularly with the coach of Real Madrid. “It happened, even if he is in a daily newspaper,” he says, adding that he knows this well for having been, too, a club coach.
And then the future of the Blues could also be written with … him. Because if he is guaranteed to keep his post until the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the former OM player, who is preparing for the Euro this summer, does not rule out continuing the adventure. “I do not forbid myself anything but I do not ask myself the question”, he said before developing his thought: “It is a privilege. I have the freedom to choose, not everyone has it. Even in very difficult times, I never asked myself the question ‘What if it goes wrong what will I do tomorrow?’. ” True to his principles, the coach thinks only of victory. And nothing but victory.
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