:watermark(https://f.pmo.ee//logos/4132/d583334e07b643b158b745b655f05032.png,-2p,-2p,0,18,none)/nginx/o/2022/12/22/15042248t1h5f5b.jpg)
France ended their reign as world champions on Sunday, losing to Argentina in penalty kicks in the title game of the final tournament. With the cycle coming to an end, it is unclear whether the 54-year-old coach will continue to manage the French national team.
“We will have a meeting where we will discuss what happened in the final tournament and what are the plans for the 2024 European Championship. If he doesn’t want to stay, the conversation will be short, if he wants to stay, then longer. It would be good if this issue was clear by the end of the year to the end,” said FFF president Noëls Legraets to “Ouest-France” newspaper.
Deschamps was confirmed as the head coach of the French national team in the summer of 2012, when Laurent Blanc announced his resignation after the European Championship.
Under his leadership, France reached the quarter-finals of the World Cup in 2014, and triumphed in the prestigious tournament in 2018. Meanwhile, in the 2016 European Championship, France reached the final, where they recognized the superiority of Portugal, but in last year’s continental championship, the French stopped in the round of 16.
Deschamps has become the longest-serving coach of the French national team, surpassing Michel Hidalgo, who led “Les Bleus” from January 1976 to June 1984.
Deschamps was the captain of the French national team at the 1998 World Cup, as well as at the 2000 European Championship. Both of these tournaments were won by France.
As a player, Deschamps won the UEFA Champions League in 1993 with Olympique de Marseille, but later he also had a successful playing career with the Italian club Juventus in Turin and the English team Chelsea in London.
