The next Federal Assembly of the French Football Federation will take place on January 7 and should confirm Didier Deschamps as coach of the French team.
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Will prolong? Will not extend? The future of Didier Deschamps, at the head of the Blues for ten years, is expected to be ratified at the next Federal Assembly of the French Football Federation (FFF), Saturday January 7. In a statement published Friday, December 30, the FFF indicated that it will be held in a hotel of 17 e de Paris in particular, “members of the FFF executive committee, of The High Authority for Football, the Executive Office of the Amateur Football League, presidents of Leagues, Districts, Ligue 1, Ligue 2 “.
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If the agenda does not specifically mention the future of Deschamps as coach of the French team, rather evoking “the activity report and financial of the FFF season 2021-2022 and the modifications of Federal texts “, it is during the executive committee provided for during this federal assembly that the president of the FFF, Noël Le Graët, should announce the decision of Deschamps concerning his future and to make it validate.
According to several media, the two men met in Guingamp on Thursday, December 29 on this subject. Didier Deschamps could extend his contract until Euro 2024, in Germany – the only title that is missing from his list of coach – or even to the 2026 World Cup. Speculations that Christmas Le Graët did not confirm, indicating to The France-Presse agency that he would “no comments”.
“I hope he will say yes”
If the extension of the Basque is not yet acted, it would be a huge surprise to see him stop. “The French team has always been the most beautiful thing that has happened to me in my professional life,” he said the day before the World Cup final in Qatar, lost to Argentina.
Winner of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Didier Deschamps also kept his whole credit with the president of the FFF, who left him carte blanche for the future, after the technician fulfilled the initial objective assigned to him: The qualification for the semi-finals of the tournament. “The question of prolonging belongs to him completely, said the Graët to the Parisian. To find a coach of this quality is not easy. It is he who decides, I hope he will say yes.”