last chance meeting between Le Graët and Deschamps?

Noël Le Graët, the president of the French Football Federation (FFF), who hopes that Didier Deschamps extends his contract, will meet the coach in January.

Didier Deschamps will be free of any contract from January 1, 2023. While France will play its third World Cup final this Sunday, against Argentina, many personalities from the media world hope that the Bayonnais will leave his post. after the World Cup in Qatar. This is particularly the case of the 1998 world champion, Christophe Dugarry, or Jérôme Rothen.

According to the revelations of The Team, Noël Le Graët will wait until the pressure of the World Cup subsides to meet Didier Deschamps. This will probably be done in Guingamp, the stronghold of the president of the FFF, and in January. The 80-year-old Breton wants to convince the coach to extend his contract until 2024.

The media specifies that Didier Deschamps would not have appreciated not having been extended before the competition. Two opposing trends in the entourage of the French coach: go to the top with a World Cup final, or extend with the Blues as coach, a role considered perfect for “DD”. At a press conference this Saturday, the former coach of AS Monaco, OM and Juventus said that his future was not important.

Zidane will not attend the World Cup final

For several months, Zinédine Zidane has been mentioned to take over from Didier Deschamps. The former Real Madrid coach has been without a contract since the end of his adventure with the Spanish club in June 2021. The 50-year-old Frenchman dreams of the Blues and even refused to take charge of PSG when the opportunity arose. was presented last summer. Invited by Emmanuel Macron, Zinédine Zidane also declined the opportunity to travel to Qatar to attend the World Cup final.

The extension of Didier Deschamps, which is becoming clearer, could thwart the plans of Zinedine Zidane, who seemed very close to the Blues before the competition in Qatar. The Frenchman is also cited on the Brazilian side.