Increasingly close to a new World Cup final, Didier Deschamps secretly dreams of shining to the end with the Blues, just to shut up some people.
The pre-competition was tense. Results at half mast, injured players, packages in spades, Didier Deschamps had enough to cause nightmares. World champion four years earlier with the France team, the national coach quite logically apprehended a World Cup 2022 which he approached in the most total vagueness. And yet, his troops have answered the call since the beginning of hostilities, so much so that France is preparing to play Wednesday (8 p.m.) a semi-final against Morocco. A success for Didier Deschamps, just as much as a release, or even a revenge.
A revenge which had already taken shape after the quarter-final won against England since “DD” thus achieved the objective set by the President of the French Football Federation before the World Cup. Qualified for the last four, Deschamps knew that he had now become sole master of his destiny. Not extended by Noël Le Graët before the World Cup, he can now decide to do so, unless he wants to leave once the Qatari competition is over. The choice is his and he could well enjoy himself against those who saw him go a little too quickly.
“Master of Clocks”
That’s what Bertrand Latour thinks. Follower of the French team for the channel The Team, the journalist suspects Didier Deschamps of wanting to show that he is the only master on board. ” I do not pretend to know him as well as his wife, but what I feel, and this has always been true, even almost when it was a bit of a storm, is that he is very calm . Honestly, it’s hard to feel the stress in him. […] Having said that, I think that the possible prospect of being world champion or going to the final, against a certain part of the people who want (Zinedine) Zidane arrives and arrives very quickly, I think he will be delighted. No doubt he will never say it publicly, but I think he is happy now to have become completely master of the clocks again. »