The French coach is aiming this Saturday against England to become the coach with the third most World Cup wins
In her third World Cup, Deschamps has achieved something that no one had achieved since 2006, taking the defending champion to the quarterfinals
Didier Deschamps has made a habit of accumulating rewards. The French coach is aiming this Saturday against England to become the coach with the third most World Cup wins and place France in the quarterfinals for the third time.
The Deschamps method is already creating a school. The Basque-French coach manages to create an alchemy in the groups he trains that is transmitted to the pitcha recipe that has given good results.
In his third World Cup, the French coach has achieved something that no one had achieved since 2006, taking the defending champions to the quarterfinals of a World Cup.
against England aspires to add his thirteenth victory in world championships in the ten years that he has led France and thus surpass the German Joachim Low, who in his 15 years at the helm of Germany won twelve duels.
Only two names will remain ahead of him, that of the Brazilian Mario Zagallo, who treasured 14 victories in the World Cups in Mexico 70, where he finished champion, Germany 74, fourth, and France 98, runner-up.And the 16 of the German Helmut Schoen, runner-up in England 66, third in Mexico 70, champion in Germany 74 and eliminated in the second phase in Argentina 78.
The Deschamps numbers are positive and the French coach seeks to renew the title achieved four years ago in Russiawhich would allow him to overcome Zagallo and stay one behind Schoen, with one less World Cup on his book.
Because the Frenchman has achieved one of the best win-per-game ratios in history. The coach has won one out of every three games played and is on the brink of improving Tele Santana’s percentagewho leads the table of most effective selectors among those who have directed at least ten games.
The Brazilian, victorious in eight of the ten games he led Brazil in the 1982 and 1986 World Cups, saw his record endangered a few days ago.
Deschamps was chasing his 12th victory in 15 games against Tunisia, which would have put him on a par with Santana, but he decided to give his starters a rest, because he had already secured qualification for the round of 16, and his team fell 1-0.
That didn’t stop the coach maintains one of the most brilliant careers in the history of the World Cups and that he is one of the few who has managed to win it as a player, something he achieved in 1998, and as a coach.
Thus he equaled Zagallo, who did it in 1958 and 1962, and the German Franz Beckenbauer, who achieved it in 1974 and 1990. In addition, he aspires to become the second coach to win two consecutive World Cups, something that only the Italian Vittorio Pozzo achieved in the 1934 and 1938 editions.
Deschamps has managed to earn the respect of his players, to which his playing career has contributed. Among the French internationals he enjoys a great prestige, which reaches high levels in the case of some of them, such as Antoine Griezmannwho does not hesitate to ensure that the trust placed in him by the coach leads him to raise his level in the national team.
“I owe him everything in the national team and if I give everything for this shirt it’s also for him. I try not to lose his confidence and every action I do on the field is a way of thanking him. I try to never want him to stop be his number 7”, assures the “mattress”.
Turned into his extension in the field, Griezmann is the player who has chained the most games with Francea mutual trust that can help enlarge the legend of Deschamps.