Monday evening at the Stade de France, the clock indicates a little after midnight when Didier Deschamps is about to leave the auditorium after almost fifteen minutes of press conference.
The coach of the Blues, inevitably disappointed and unhappy with the defeat against Croatia (0-1), synonymous with elimination in the League of Nations, answers a final question about the holidays to come and how he will approach them.
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Yes, I'm going to have a bad vacation but that would have been the case even if we had won all four matches (reference to the death of his father),
he admits without flinching, he who was very affected throughout the rally.
It's a bad time, it can happen too, but in any case you have to accept and appreciate when there are very good times.
Football is football, losing, there is nothing more that can annoy me, you have to accept it and make sure you get back on the right track.
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A few minutes earlier, he had agreed that this family death had also affected him.
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I talk about the players, but I attribute it to myself too: I didn't have the usual strength and energy to transmit to them
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A sincere and touching confession from the boss of the world champions, who does not seek excuses and also takes his share of the responsibilities.