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The first star as captain, the second as coach: Didier Deschamps has seated a little more his special place in the history of France by winning the 2018 edition of the World Cup, Sunday against Croatia (4-2) in the final.
In the history of sport, the French The 49-year-old Brazilian Mario Zagallo and Germany's Franz Beckenbauer, the only other football figures to win the supreme title as a player and coach, sat at the table.
At the national level, on the night of the victory in the semi-final against Belgium on Tuesday in Saint-Petersburg (1-0), he became the first coach of the French team to guide him to two consecutive finals of major tournaments, after that of the Euro-2016 (lost 1-0 to .p. against Portugal)
The two finals he had chained as a player had been won: he was the captain during the Golden Age of the Blues, marked by the double World-1998 / Euro 2000, the first ever French World Cup title and then the second European Championship, after the Platini generation in 1984.
– "Dédé la Gagne" –
Deschamps was then nicknamed "La Dèche" , and had, ironically, completed the crossing of the blue desert, where he had known including the Bulgarian nightmare of 1993, raising the World Cup after a dream final (3-0 against Brazil of the "Fenomeno" Ronaldo, in Saint-Denis). And he had retired internationally on the European title in 2000.
The defensive midfielder had already entered the history of French football by being, in 1993, the captain of the first French team to win the Champions League, Marseille against AC Milan in the final (1-0). His proximity to the leaders, of public notoriety, had pushed some of his teammates to nickname him … "The Eye of Moscow."
And it is in the Russian capital that he returned to the wire of his destiny, sewn with gold. Broken in the lost final of Euro-2016, which he kept resent two years later. "A final, it wins, yes, because the one we lost two years ago, we still have not digested," he said Tuesday evening.
The Moscow final resumed story of "Dédé la Gagne". Because the result is his obsession, in a World Cup final as a card game. However, final question, the coach Deschamps presented before Sunday a list of four League Cups (with Monaco and Marseille) and last failed marches (Monegasque defeat in the Champions League in 2004 and blue in Euro-2016). 19659003] – The "cat to DD" –
The "chance to DD", or "chachatte to DD" in a language more familiar but now common, purrs again. Witnesses, a goal conceded by the Croats – first in the World Cup, then a penalty obtained thanks to video badistance to arbitration (VAR), again a first in the World Cup final.
During the tournament, this good star, he had not denied, but had added the notion of work: "That I am often in the right place at the right time, it is likely, I do not have to complain I know, and I obviously badociate all of my staff, all the work that is done.There are requirements that are there, that's what I like. "
The course has not always been easy: Deschamps was close to the exit before the return barrage of the World Cup-2014 (3-0 win against Ukraine after a 2-0 defeat in Kiev) and probably would not have resisted an elimination in the 8th final against Argentina in Russia. "We have enough experience to know what could have happened" in case of elimination, admitted his deputy Guy Stephan, kingpin of the fluidity of relations in the group of Blues.
But here, the Ukraine and Argentina were two of his main feats, and bore his mark: at the foot of the wall, the team of France knows how to make the round back and win. Rebelote in 2018, at the end of a difficult first round in the game, and a semi-final pbaded to suffer
The Belgians had pointed this. "The frustration is there because we lose against a team that is not better than us, we lost against a team that plays nothing, defending," enraged goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. "I prefer to lose with Belgium than to win with France," chained Hazard.
Deschamps' answer holds in a (good) star.
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