Didier Deschamps would have slipped some preferences for the position of coach of the French women’s team. And Thierry Henry did not have his favors …
« You don’t spare me anything, even if it’s back to school. » Didier Deschamps laughed yellow when he was asked about the situation of Corinne Deacon, sacked from her position as coach of the French women’s team. “I laugh about it, but I don’t feel like laughing about it. I must weigh all the words, chained the boss of the Blues. I don’t have the ins and outs of the story yet. I don’t know if there was a good reason, a less bad one. But there is substance and form… As a coach, on form, that bothers me… I’m not going to say more but you will have understood me. »
Didier Deschamps would however have allowed himself to give his opinion on the succession of Corinne Deacon at the head of the Blue. However, it is not Noël Le Graët, a great friend of “DD”, who will make this choice, but the captain of the 1998 world champions would have made it known what his preference was.
According to Le Quotidien du Sport, Deschamps would have pushed in favor of Jocelyn Gourvennec. He would prefer the former Guingamp coach, “more erased” that Hervé Renard, the other technician who would hold the rope currently to take over the reins of the Blue. The name of Thierry Henry also circulated this week, even if the former Blues striker replied that he was not interested in this position. So much the better for Deschamps, who would thus have indicated “that he was not in favor of the appointment” of his former national team-mate…