Didier Deschamps will not renew his contract and will leave the role of coach of the French national team after the 2026 World Cup. Even if he were to triumph in the competition to be played between the United States, Mexico and Canada, he will not continue the path begun in 2012, when he took over as manager Laurent Blanc at the end of the European Championship.
The former midfielder announced his decision a little while ago, in an interview broadcast by TF1. Deschamps, 56 years old, had already understood several months ago that the time had come to end this extraordinary experience and now the time had come to make everything official, also to definitively calm the rumors surrounding his future and calmly look at the two commitments that they wait Les Bleus: this year’s Nations League and, above all, the World Cup.
These are his words: “I have been here since 2012. I have planned until 2026, the next World Cup, but I will stop there because sooner or later I would have to do it. Everything is very clear in my head. I have served France for all of this time with the same desire and passion to keep the team at the highest levels. When something is so good, we wish it would never end. But you have to know how to say stop. 14 years will have passed, that’s a long time. I’m not looking for records: the most important thing is that the French team remains at the top, where it has been for many years.”
Let us remember that France, with Deschamps, was World champion in 2018 and vice-champion in 2022, as well as coming second at Euro 2016.