If you follow this Friday evening the meeting in the League of Nations Austria – France, broadcast on TF1, you will undoubtedly realize a habit that Didier Deschamps has taken, since he is coach of the Blues. In the field, he “never talk without your hand in front of your mouth“report to us our colleagues from Liberation. And for good reason.
We won’t take it again!
An unfortunate experience completely vaccinated him! It dates from July 2, 2000, more precisely the evening when the French football team won the Euro in Rotterdam. Immediately after the victory, the coach, at the time Roger Lemerre, rushed to the team captain, Didier Deschamps. At the time, aged 32, he was about to retire as a player.
But now, Roger Lemerre had insisted that the player not give up. And what the two men had said to each other on the lawn had landed in the newspapers the next day! By reading their lips, the journalists had decoded this exchange: Lemerre: “We’re not going to give up now. With the deadlines that await us… (…) So, you’re not going out now”. The fields : “I have my wife, my family… I don’t want to make them suffer”. Lemerre: “Think about it, and when you decide to announce it… For the moment, it’s party time”. Deschamps: “But I have to have a choice. I’m fed up, I’m really fed up”.
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Since then, we can no longer blame Didier Deschamps for this fault. Aged 53, he also jokes about this discreet practice that everyone has since adopted: “If I had filed the patent, I would have amassed fortunes“. And he not only guards his professional life against incretions. Didier Deschamps also pays attention to his wife, “Claude, a former student in speech therapy, met as a teenager in Nantes, and Dylan (26), their son, who bolts in finance in England“explains Liberation.
“I’m still in control“
About them, he confides:I have always made sure to protect my privacy and that of my family. I’ve always been prepared for this, but for the people around, it can be violent. I have my life as a coach but also that of a husband, a father. I do not have two personalities but, by virtue of my function, I am always in control. I am not a clown“.
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