Very discreet since June 2020 when he had decided to move away from the world of football, disgusted by the environment, Christophe Dugarry has made a remarkable comeback in the media in recent weeks.
After speaking during the World Cup on the Blues on RMC, the 1998 world champion took the floor in
L'Équipe
to take stock of the epic of the French team in Qatar.
And, unlike many French people, the ex-striker will keep a bitter memory of the course of the men of Didier Deschamps.
If he is delighted with the arrival in the final of his compatriots, Dugarry does not understand how they could miss the event against the Argentines for 80 minutes even if the title was decided on penalties. (3-3, 4 tab to 2).
Because for him, Argentina was largely takeable.
There is an analysis to be made on the game, and on the eighty minutes which are part of the most catastrophic of the French team of the last fifty years
Christophe Dugary
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There is an analysis to be made on the game, and on the eighty minutes which are part of the most catastrophic of the French team of the last fifty years, on a day of the World Cup final.
It seems to me that this deserves a debate.
Beyond the emotion, because I vibrated, too, I am still shocked by these eighty minutes.
If we are not world champions, it is because of these eighty minutes.
If we play them at our level, we win this match without problem and we are world champions
, ”explains the former striker of the Girondins de Bordeaux who targets, before the players, Didier Deschamps.
As we know, the coach is not a great friend of Dugarry even if they climbed to the roof of the world in 1998 with the national team.
The 50-year-old former player considers the boss of the Blues to be primarily responsible and asks that he explain this air pocket during a very large part of the final: “
I need to understand.
We got walked on in the World Cup final.
How it is possible ?
For the good of the France team, this debate must take place.
If that was enough, it must be said.
If it was physical, it must be said too.
So that it doesn't happen again.
How can you be so invisible, so uninspired with the ball, so far in duels?
It's not the defeat that's the problem.
It's those eighty minutes, and I'm shocked that this debate didn't happen.
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We cannot say that the France team belongs to everyone and keep it for twelve years
Christophe Dugary
A way to put pressure on the French Football Federation, in the media at least, while the future of Didier Deschamps is not yet written in stone even if an extension is on the right track.
A clever way, also to defend the candidacy of Zinédine Zidane for this post by campaigning.
Because Dugarry does not hide it, he is very close to the former number 10.
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I don't hide that I would prefer it to be "Zizou" (Zinédine Zidane), I want to see something else.
Deschamps, I hear what he says, but you can't say that the France team belongs to everyone and keep it for twelve years, especially when you have a possible successor who has won the Champions League (with Real Madrid, in 2016, 2017, 2018) and which can bring something to the France team.
In absolute terms, moreover, that does not concern me.
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