While the Blues have successfully entered this 2026 World Cup, coach Didier Deschamps is preparing to hand over at the end of the World Cup. What to relieve his wife?
This time, it’s his last World Cup at the head of the Blues team: Didier Deschamps could probably be replaced by Zinédine Zidane according to a persistent rumor. The coach gave a long interview to football figures, in the pages of the newspaper THE Figaro. The opportunity to talk about retirement…
“I remember telling my wife…”
Indeed, questioned by Olivier Giroud on what “will stop this profession“, the now 57-year-old coach admitted to being in no hurry to retire. “I want to stop as late as possible. I remember telling my wife (Claude Deschamps, mother of her only son Dylan, 20 years old, editor’s note) when I started coaching and I had five days between my life as a player and a coach: ‘No, but I do this for ten years and then I stop.’ That was in 2001. She doesn’t believe me when I say anything anymore“, he confided, amused by his little lie.
“I will also do it when the need arises”
And Didier Deschamps, former coach of the AS Monaco, Juventus and OM teams, added: “To be serious, this job is my adrenaline. As long as I feel able to do it, I continue. If I don’t do that, I’m not going to stay with a life where I go to sleep at night and there’s nothing planned the next day. It’s not me. It will never be me. Be careful, I enjoy life too. I knew at different times to say stop, I will also do it when the need arises“Here is his wife warned.
Didier Deschamps assured in the pages of the daily that he does not yet have a precise plan for the rest of his career, he who therefore seems initially focused on the World Cup. “I haven’t made a decision about my future and I’m not going to make it now. I will do it (…) I have the freedom to choose, but I have no political ambition, even if, by being a selector, there is a part of politics too, I do not aspire to institutional responsibilities. (…) It’s not something that attracts me today. I don’t know if I have the skills either. I’m going to stay in what I know well”, he concluded.
