Under Didier's leadership, the France team has continued to progress: 1/4 final at the 2014 World Cup, finalist of Euro 2016, two years before the coronation of Moscow, which has it a little more made history. Apart from the Brazilian Mario Zagalo, the German Franz Beckenbauer and him, no one has won the World Cup as a player or as a coach. This unprecedented feat, Didier Deschamps achieved it by winning the most prestigious competition in Russia in 2018, twenty years after the 1998 coronation against Brazil at the Stade de France. Appointed by Noël Le Graët on July 9, 2012, the former midfielder now has more selections on the bench than on the field (103). The blue jersey is like a second skin for him. "There is nothing above the, likes to recall the most beautiful achievements of French football.
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