Didier Deschamps

Biography

Promising beginnings

The Bayonne Aviron is its first club amateur of football. It enables him to be pointed out fine 1982 in league of Aquitaine and to integrate the training center of FC Nantes, famous to be at the time the best of France, in April 1983.

As of its beginnings with Nantes, Deschamps proves to be a voluntary, untiring player and with a strong personality. He plays its first match of the first division the September 27th 1985. Defensive medium, it recovers balloons enormously and organizes the team with rigor and effectiveness. Everywhere where he will play, the players and the spectators will recognize its remarkable qualities.

Marseilles to return in the history

Transferred to OM in 1989, Deschamps makes one season with the Girondins of Bordeaux in 1990, before turning over to Marseilles. It begins the long list there from titles of its prize list. Twice champion of France in 1990 and 1992, it is in Ligue of the Champions that it enters the history of French football because the OM is the first French club to gain this title, in 1993, at the end of an intense match against large the Milan AC, with a goal of the head of Basile Boli.

Juve wants Deschamps

The Juventus of Turin (where Michel Platini played) urges Didier Deschamps in 1994 to find a born leader of talent, able to gain titles.

Success is with go. Juve is three times champion of Italy, and gains a long list of cuts (see the prize list). Didier Deschamps accustoms the Old woman to the European and national finales. The French is recognized like one of the best world mediums and his east coast with highest.

The team of France

Called in team of France by the national sport selector Michel Platini as of April 1989 (against the Yugoslavia) whereas it is only 20 years old, Didier Deschamps knows the dark hours of French football: the not-qualification for the World cup 1990, the Euro 1992 bâclé, and especially the fiasco of the eliminating heats for the Football world cup 1994. Besides with the final whistle of famous France Bulgaria of November 1993, Didier Deschamps seems one of the French players most marked by the defeat. He will be only more revanchist thereafter.

Even if it must wait the month of June 1996 (and a friendly match against the Germany in preparation of the Euro 1996) to become the captain of the team of France, Didier Deschamps affirms himself since 1994 as the key man of the device set up by the new selector Aimé Jacquet which finds in him the perfect relay of its speech near the players. But Deschamps is also the privileged interlocutor of the selector apart from the ground.

In 1998, France gains the World cup. Deschamps was one of the principal craftsmen. On the impetus, it also conquers the Euro 2000. However, this new conquest is not done without evil for Deschamps. Decreased physically, its output with the Blue ones is more irregular than during its beautiful years and he painfully saw criticisms which fall down on him. Criticisms of the media, but also of certain fellow-members. That encourages it to take its international retreat at the evening of the victorious finale of France (actually, after a match of official reception against a selection of the FIFA in August, he knows a last wraps in the form of jubilee against England in September).

The player remains in the memory of the supporters the Blue ones like the born leader, the owner. He did not have the talent and the creativity of Zidane, but he had invaluable qualities of endurance, revival and of organization of the play. In 103 selections (record which was beaten by Marcel Desailly and Lilian Thuram) it lost only 12 matches besides.

Of the player to the trainer

In 1999, Deschamps, left free by Juventus, try the English adventure and leave for Chelsea FC. Once more, it gains a title: the Cut of England. It finishes its career of player in Spain, with Valence while having built one of the most beautiful prize lists which is (in 2002, it is even classified 11th by the French newspaper the Team, by a scale of the most beautiful prize lists of the international football of the 20th century).

Consequently, he thinks of reconverting himself and of making benefit from other teams of his talents. He becomes trainer and joined the ACE Monaco. The first year is difficult but after having found its marks and thanks to a talented team (Rothen, Nonda, Giuly then Morientes one year later), Monaco gains the Coupe of the League 2003 vis-a-vis Sochaux, then carries out a splendid course in Ligue of the champions in 2003-2004: victory 8-3 vis-a-vis Corogne, elimination of the Real Madrid, favorite of the test in quarterfinal, then of Chelsea in semi-final. Only FC Oporto, and its players of world class such as Ricardo Carvalho, Maniche and other Deco trained then by Jose Mourinho, stops this team finally (0-3).

The September 19th 2005, after results mitigated with Monaco, it makes the decision to leave its post of trainer of the team. It is replaced by the Italian Francesco Guidolin.

The July 10th 2006, it confirms that he will be the trainer of the Juventus of Turin for two seasons, whatever the series where Juventus will play. Following a court order, Juventus is finally relegated in Series B with a starting penalty of 17 points, brought back to 9 points following the verdict pronounced by the Italian arbitration Court (Coni Arbitrato), in the night of October 27th, 2006.

By obtaining the championship of Series B in 2007, Deschamps makes go up without problem Juventus in Série has. However on May 26th, 2007, " DD" announces that he resigns of his post of trainer of the " Dame" old woman;. Its difficult relationship with the sport director Alessio Secco pushes it to leave.

The president of the Professional football league, Frederic Thiriez, proposes to him with autumn 2007 to take part in the " project; Footpro 2012". Deschamps accepted this proposal.

Statistics

Update: May 16th, 2007

Sporting career

Dominique Rouch wrote about it Didier Deschamps, winner in the heart , editions 1, in 2001 (following discussions with the player).

Profile

Old medium ground recuperator, it gained many titles with the various clubs for which it played. It is however as captain of the team of France which he wrote the most beautiful pages of his career of footballer, by taking down the titles of world champion in 1998 and champion of Europe in 2000. Called Desch' by its fellow-members, it was sometimes named Blanchard (only by Marcel Desailly), Maxitête or Dédé .

It is in the Dream TEAM RMC since the World cup 2006 where it is Co-organizer on RMC, Monday and Thursday, with Luis Fernandez in the emission Luis Attack (http://luisattaque.rmc.fr). In 2007, following its reference of Juventus, it becomes consulting on Canal +.

Career trainer

2001-2005 :
2006-2007:

Prize list trainer

Cut of the League: 2003 France
Vice Champion of France: 2003 France
Finalist of the League of the Champions: 2004 France
Champion of Series B in 2007, it makes go up in Série has after this one left the elite following Calciopoli.

Prize list player

Selection

Victorious of the Cut Kirin: 1994
World champion: 1998
Hassan-II Tournament: 1998 and 2000
Champion of Europe: 2000

Clubs

Victorious of the League of the Champions: 1993 (Marseilles) and 1996 (Juventus)
Victorious of the Intercontinental Cut: 1996 Victorious
of the Supercoupe of the UEFA: 1996
Champion of France: 1990 and 1992
Champion of Italy: 1995,1997 and 1998 Victorious
of the Cut of Italy: 1995
Finalist of UEFA Cup: 1995 Victorious
of the Supercoupe of Italy: 1995 and 1997 Victorious
of the Cut of England: 2000
Finalist of the Cut Gambardella juniors: 1986 victorious
cuts national chicks 1982

(Various seasonal worker: trophy Luigi Berlusconi (1995 and 1998)

Equip with France

103 selections: 68 victories, 23 null, 12 defeats - 4 goals
1st match on April 29th, 1989: - (0-0)
1st goal on October 11th, 1989: - (3-0)

Detailed statistics

Personal distinctions

French Player having disputed the greatest number of matches of Cut of Europe: 12 seasons (8 C1 and 4 C3), 80 matches, 1 goal
Fourth player more wrapped of the team of France with 103 selections (54 times captain of 1994 to 2000, French record, in front of Michel Platini to 50)
One of the most titrated French players of all times (with Bixente Lizarazu and Marcel Desailly)
Named with FIFA 100 (Signal 100 of the best alive players of all times) in 2004
French Player of the year in 1996
Orange Price France Football in 2001

As trainer:

French Trainer of the year in 2003
Better UNFP/Canal trainer + in 2004

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