Deschamps on French Football Personality Loss

The Blues coach hails a “true enthusiast” and a “fine connoisseur” of football.

“French football is losing an endearing, warm personality with a strong character.“, indicates Didier Deschamps, coach of the French team, after the announcement, Monday January 12, of the death of Rolland Courbis. The former coach and consultant on RMC died at the age of 72.

Didier Deschamps salutes “a fine connoisseur of football and its mysteries, but also of the game“. “Rolland has managed the best French clubs, I am thinking in particular of Bordeaux, Marseille, Lens and Montpellier“, explains the Blues coach.

For Didier Deschamps, Rolland Courbis “was a true enthusiast“and this passion, he chose”to transmit it, in recent years, behind a microphone”. The coach retains hissense of the formula all his own“.