Didier Deschamps will step down as France’s football team coach when his current contract ends after the 2026 World Cup, according to the French news agency AFP citing a source close to the team.
Deschamps led the French team ‘Les Bleus’ to the 2018 World Cup title, becoming only the third man to win the football tournament as a player and a manager.
He took over from Laurent Blanc in 2012 and has taken France to three major finals in total, losing the Euro 2016 final to Portugal and the 2022 World Cup showpiece to Argentina.
Deschamps was captain when Les Bleus won their first World Cup on home soil in 1998.
The 56-year-old has already set the record for longest-serving official France coach.
According to media reports, he will officially announce his decision to leave the job in an interview with Brigitte Macron on French television on Wednesday.
European qualifying for the 2026 World Cup, which will be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada, gets under way later this year.
France next face Croatia in March in the quarter-finals of the Nations League, a tournament they won under Deschamps in 2021.
(with AFP)
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