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Its main detractor is called Christophe Dugarry. The one who is very close to Zinedine Zidane in life gave an interview for the newspaper L’Equipe. And he does not spare the coach of the Blues. “We got walked on in the World Cup final. How is that possible? It’s not the loss that’s the problem. It’s the 80 minutes, and I’m shocked that this debate isn’t happening. ”, he explained. Before giving his favorite to train the Habs: “I don’t hide that I would prefer it to be ‘Zizou’ (Zinédine Zidane), I want to see something else.”
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An attentive observer of the World Cup, Sidney Govou agrees with the former consultant. Even if he is much less virulent than the former Girondin. “It’s a personal opinion: obviously I’m not saying that Didier Deschamps does not deserve to continue. He has done a great job at the head of the France team”he started for SoFoot. “I find that the change of generation to come deserves a change of management and therefore of coach. If I were close to Deschamps, I would tell him to stop. And I don’t see anyone else to replace him apart from Zinédine Zidane.”
“On his record, Deschamps deserves to stay in the selection”
The reasons therefore differ between the two former players. To discuss Deschamps’ balance sheet, Christophe Dugarry argues through the game. According to him, this is not satisfactory enough. Present in the show Greg’s team this Thursday, he went back a little on his point. “On his record, Deschamps deserves to stay in the selection”he nuanced. “In four years, when you win the World Cup in 2018 and you make a final, even with 80 horrible minutes and the content of the matches is not extraordinary, why not, I don’t care.”
True to form, he took the sulphate back into his hands. “Zidane or Deschamps, that’s not the subject. It’s not my subject, I don’t want to get into this debate. for Zinédine Zidane or against Didier Deschamps. I don’t care about that. If Deschamps wants to stay, that’s his problem. I just want to start a debate and I hope that we will be entitled to explanations on football in the weeks coming.”
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Except in the final where the France team was eaten up in all areas for 80 minutes, was the team’s level of play that terrible? Often critical in his analyses, Daniel Riolo was particularly conquered after the performance against Denmark. “In competition, I believe that since 2006 and the match against Brazil (1-0 in the quarter-finals of the World Cup, editor’s note), the French team has not thrilled me so much, seduced, in terms of play. , what you offer on the pitch, the enthusiasm you show, the way of playing. There is also a way of playing that I like more”he explained on the antennas of RMC.
After this great performance, France then lost against Tunisia. But this defeat was built in extenuating circumstances. Didier Deschamps had chosen to use “his hairdressers”, unenviable terms of the French media to designate the replacements of the base team. The Blues then easily qualified against Poland thanks to a fiery Kylian Mbappé. Christophe Dugarry therefore points to the last three performances of his national team. France had been roughed up against England and Morocco but still qualified in pain. Before experiencing a historic final that everyone remembers.
“You are Zizou’s friend!”
For some, Dugarry’s words are above all political. As Raymond Domenech, also present in L’Equipe de Greg, pointed out. “Your words drown out the debate”he retorted. “We know that you are Zizou’s friend and that at the moment there is a campaign to dismiss Deschamps and put Zizou in. If we put Zizou it means that we dismiss Deschamps and I can’t get into it. this issue. That you are in the worst position to say that, I agree with you.” Especially since Deschamps and Dugarry do not like each other. Bixente Lizarazu had even confided that the two men were “irreconcilable“.
One thing is certain, the words of Christophe Dugarry will not change anything in the spirit of Noël Le Graët. Didier Deschamps has the hand and the president wants to see him continue. However, the question remains open for French supporters. On its site, L’Equipe has launched a poll: should DD remain the coach of the France team? Only 55% of voters want to see the coach continue. A very meager figure when we observe the list of “best coach in the world” in the words of Walid Regragui, Morocco’s coach during the competition in Qatar.
