The French coach, Didier Deschampsgot this Wednesday before Moroccoin the World Cup semifinals in Qatar, his 14th win in this competition, tying him with Brazilian Luiz Felipe Scolari and the two stood behind the German Helmut Schölzthe one with the most.
The French coach, who will play in the final this Sunday against Argentinahave achieved those feats in 18 games played in the Brazil World Cup 2014 when he reached the quarterfinals, Russia 2018where he won the title, and Qatar 2022where he was in the final.
The coach has also reached the final in three of the four major competitions he has coached, as he also reached it in the 2016 Euro Cup played in his country and where he fell against Portugal of Cristiano Ronaldo.
Deschamps is approaching 80% success in his matches, the record held by the Brazilian tv santana from coaches who have directed at least ten games.
The Basque-French coach is one of three people who raised the World Cup as a player and as a coach, something also achieved by the Brazilian Mario Zagallo (1958 and 1972) and the German Frank Beckembauer (1974 and 1990).
Captain of France who was declared champion in 1998, coach of the team that achieved the second star four years ago, Deschamps can get the third next Sunday and thus equalize. zagallowho achieved two as a player (1958 and 1962) and one as a coach (1970), to which the Brazilian added in 1994, when he was the representative of Carlos Alberto Parreira.
The French selector, who still hasn’t revealed if he will continue to lead the “bleus” after this worldsucceeded in establishing France among the great nations of the world.
He took the reins of the team after the disaster of euro 2012, at the behest of his friend Laurent Blancand since then his career has been great.
His only losses in the final stages were the ones he lost Germany in the quarterfinals of Brazil World Cup (1-0 with a goal from Mats Hummels), the 2016 Euro Cup final against Portugal (1-0 with a goal from Eder in extra time) and the third game of the first stage of the World Cup in Qatar against Tunisia (1-0), when he lined up a team full of substitutes. In last year’s Euro Cup he was eliminated in a penalty shootout in the round of 16 matches Switzerland. The coach played 29 games in the final stages, with 20 wins and only three losses.
An adherent of soccer pragmatism, Deschamps avoids philosophical debates about game systems and bases his success on building cohesive groups that allow the best expression of squad quality.
In order not to upset those balances, he did not hesitate to leave out quality players who, in his opinion, could disrupt coexistence. The best example of this is Karim Benzemaa fixture in his early years that was ruled out when the courts accused his partner Mathieu Valbuena of complicity in blackmail.
The front of real Madrid He missed the 2016 Euro Cup and the 2018 World Cup, before the coach lifted the veto and called him back in June 2021 after a three and a half year absence, to play in that year’s Euro Cup. But a last-minute injury ruled him out Qatar World Cup.
Source: La Verdad
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