Sponsor of the 32nd edition of the Yellow Pieces, Didier Deschamps was the guest of Apolline de Malherbe this Saturday on BFMTV.
“I get involved in hospitals.
A sports fight is a laugh compared to a fight for life, insists the Basque technician.
We are privileged.
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After having mentioned the Covid situation "the horrible silence in the stadiums", the Euro "it will take place", the financial crisis in French football after the withdrawal of Mediapro "there were no necessary precautions taken upstream "Or his decision to be vaccinated" the only way to slow down or eradicate the disease ", the coach of the Blues, under contract until the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, was asked about his future.
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“I don't forbid myself anything, but I don't ask myself the question.
It's a privilege, he says.
I have the freedom to choose, not everyone has it.
Even in very difficult times, I never asked myself the question.
“On his succession, Deschamps reaffirmed, once again, that he saw his former teammate Zinédine Zidane, coach of Real, take over.
“Yes, obviously… I know it's going to be picked up again, but it's reality,” says DD.
We exchange regularly even if he is in a daily newspaper of a club.
From the moment he decided to be a coach and that he is a club coach, that he can come full circle… He like all the former players… Perhaps even more him because even in our generation, he there were all the players I was part of… and Zizou.
It has never been a problem for me.
Zizou is Zizou.
He was part of the group with us.
It was a decisive element.
But afterwards, with all that it can bring in terms of notoriety… ”
Support for Bernard Tapie
During this interview, Didier Deschamps also sent a few words of support to Bernard Tapie, his former president at OM with whom he raised the Champions League in 1993 and who has been fighting cancer for three years.
“It's a character that marked me, with certain excesses.
When I arrived in Marseille, I was completely intimidated, until the day I made the switch, recalls the boss of the Blues.
OK, it was Bernard Tapie but I had the right to tell him things as I meant them.
I keep in touch with him thanks to new technologies.
And I went to see him after our title of world champion
(Editor's note: in 2018)
, at his place, to discuss, with a part of his family that I also knew.
We had the opportunity to exchange.
Yes, it's a fight.
He delivered others.
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