Very happy in love and a fulfilled father, Didier Deschamps has always made it a point of honor to preserve his family cocoon. Already fatherless, the Blues coach lost his mother in the middle of the 2026 World Cup. But what do we know about his family?
The Blues are in mourning. While the 2026 World Cup is in full swing, the coach of the French team, Didier Deschamps, lost his mother, Ginette, on June 23. He therefore hastily left the United States to reunite with his family in the Basque Country where his mother still lived.
Didier Deschamps orphan: the tragedies that shook his family
Didier Deschamps has always remained very discreet about his family life. A value he got from his mother, Ginette, a former wool seller in Bayonne, the stronghold of the Deschamps family. She always preferred to stay away from the cameras. Moreover, when her son played in the famous final against Brazil in 1998, she was not in the stands, but behind her television with her grandson Dylan.
But don’t see this as a lack of interest in his son’s career. The parents of the 57-year-old coach have always been a great support for him, especially after the death of their eldest son, Philippe, who died suddenly at the age of 22 in the crash of Air France flight 1919 in 1987. The father of the 1998 World Cup winner, a former house painter and rugby player, died in turn in 2022 while the Blues were in full gathering at Clairefontaine in anticipation of a series of League matches. nations. “The death of my dad was violent for me, and sudden. Sometimes we can be prepared, but here we were not at all”Didier Deschamps then revealed in the columns of The Team.
Didier Deschamps very happy with his wife Claude: “She put me back on the right path”
Fortunately, Didier Deschamps has always been able to count on the love of his life, Claude. The Blues coach has spent happy days at his side since 1985, the year they met in Concarneau when the player, aged 18, was playing at the Nantes Atlantique Football Club. The young Breton was then studying speech therapy, a career which she chose to abandon to follow her husband.
Installed between Cap-d’Ail, in the Alpes Maritimes, and Concarneau where they have a vacation home, the Deschamps have always avoided the media and social evenings. And in love, they prefer to remain discreet! In the documentary Didier against Deschamps broadcast in 2019 on TF1, the main person concerned still blurted out: “I had the opportunity to earn, already at the time, a little bit of money and to be able to take advantage of it. Something I didn’t do in the years before. The fact that I met her, and that we could live together, on a daily basis, well yes it was stabilizing. It necessarily calmed my festive ardor”. Before declaring: “She put me back on the right path”.
Didier Deschamps: his son Dylan holds an important position in London
Together, the lovebirds have a son, Dylan. Born in 1996 while Didier Deschamps was playing for Juventus in Turin, the 30-year-old did not catch the football fever. And he traced his path away from the field. He studied marketing and finance at EDHEC Business School in Nice, and even founded a mobile marketing consulting start-up, App4Media, during his school career. Ultimately, the company closed in 2022, but son Deschamps moved to London where he works as a risk analyst for the Samson Rock Capital LLP group.
Happy in love, he recently married Mathilde, a young woman he met in 2017 on the benches of EDHEC in Nice. Content creator followed by more than 90,000 people, and businesswoman, she founded Capp Travel & Expérience, a content agency which operates in the fields of beauty, travel and fashion. Both very active on social networks, they never hesitate to share their happiness on the Web.
