00:00Didier Deschamps is the most important figure in the history of French football.
00:03In front of Zidane, in front of lots of other people.
00:06For me, Zidane made the French love football.
00:08He is superior in terms of accomplishment, aura, history, and everything else.
00:12But Deschamps, when you look closely,
00:13in virtually all of French football's achievements,
00:16Apart from PSG's recent back-to-back wins,
00:18But before that, he was involved in all the achievements of French football.
00:20He was captain of OM in 1993.
00:22He was captain of France in 1998 and 2000.
00:24and then he became the coach of France in 2018.
00:26The guy is everywhere, all the time, extremely important.
00:28France's record is actually thanks to him.
00:30The fact of reviving the French national team after 2010 and Euro 2012,
00:33which was average, this is exceptional.
00:36And we can say what we want, criticize his game, whatever, his choices from time to time.
00:39The guy, he makes it to two World Cup finals in a row.
00:41In other words, if Zidane made the French love football,
00:43Deschamps supported football.
00:44The history of French football rests heavily on him.
00:47And I think we don't necessarily realize it.
00:48And we'll realize it when he leaves.
00:50Because, first of all, winning the World Cup,
00:51the first as captain and the second as national coach.
00:54But that's madness.
00:54Honestly, it's madness.
00:55And many people forget, or pretend to forget, that he was a captain at the time.
00:58National team football is much less tactical.
01:00And it's really 99% management.
01:02And he managed to unite a group where there are many egos.
01:04where there were many big players.
01:06And he drew better ones from them.
01:07Even with Mbappé, when you see that at club level, things don't always go very well.
01:10And in the French national team, things almost always go well.
01:12Even guys who aren't necessarily at the peak of their careers,
01:15He will take them into the French national team.
01:16Because in fact, he has his group and he has his soldiers, in quotation marks.
01:19He actually places that trust in his players.
01:20He makes bold choices.
01:21He made a lot of bold choices.
01:22We're talking about Menzema, but there have been other guys like Menzema.
01:24who could have been higher up in the French national team
01:26and whom he did not take or to whom he did not give a chance.
01:27He made strong choices for group unity
01:29And his players need to have confidence in him.
01:30His players need to want to win for him, in fact.
01:32Because that's what being a coach is all about.
01:33It's because your players need to want to win for you.
01:35And you, do you agree?
01:36Or are you seeing someone else?
01:37as the most important figure in French football?
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