They want to continue adding titles together with the former player. Didier Deschamps will continue as the national team coach of France until Euro 2024, once he has achieved the goal of qualifying for the World Cup semi-finals, Le Parisien newspaper reported on Sunday.
The president of the French Football Federation, Noël Le Graët, had announced before the tournament that Deschamps could decide his future if the "bleu" team, the current world champion, reached the semi-finals of this tournament.
And Le Parisien remembers that Deschamps himself has been privately confident for some time that he would like to remain in the position until Euro 2024, which will be held in Germany, if France qualifies for the final phase.
The potential continuity of "Didi," as he is known in French football, would be an insurmountable obstacle, at least temporarily, to Zinedine Zidane's aspirations to take the position in the event of his departure.
French coach since 2012, Deschamps has won the 2018 World Cup and the 2021 Nations League, but could not win the 2016 European Championship, held in France, in which he was a finalist but lost to Portugal.
According to Le Parisien, Deschamps, 54, has the desire to attempt one last assault on the European Championship because he trusts in keeping almost his entire current group, a mixture of illustrious veterans and promising young players led by Kylian Mbappé.
It is worth noting that France has been performing admirably in the 2022 World Cup. Deschamps' team defeated England and is now in the semi-finals. They will have to face Morocco if they want to reach the final in Qatar for the second consecutive time.