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Coach Didier Deschamps’s journey with the French national team has officially ended, after the “Roosters” bid farewell to the 2026 World Cup after losing to the Spanish national team in the semi-finals, bringing the curtain down on one of the most successful and longest coaching periods in the history of French football.
Deschamps had announced before the start of the tournament that the 2026 World Cup would be the last. His stop at the head of the coaching staff of the French national team, thus ending a journey that extended since August 2012, lasting for nearly 14 years, during which he witnessed many achievements and successes on the international scene.
During his leadership of the national team, the French coach succeeded in returning the “Roosters” to the podium, after he led them to win the 2018 World Cup title in Russia, before adding to his record the European Nations League title in 2021, and also reaching the final of the European Nations Championship. 2016, and also reached the final of the 2022 World Cup, concluding his career with France by reaching the semi-finals of the 2026 World Cup.
Deschamps leaves his position, leaving an immortal mark on the history of the French national team, after his name was associated with its most prominent achievements, whether when he took the captaincy and led France to win the 1998 World Cup as a player, or when he brought the same glory back to the “Roosters” as a coach two decades later, concluding an exceptional career that will remain engraved. In the memory of French football.