After winning the Champions League on Saturday May 28 with Real Madrid, Karim Benzema finally arrived in Clairefontaine where he joined the France team. He was the last missing player and the Blues are now complete to prepare for the matches that await them in the League of Nations, which will take place between June 3 and 13. But now, after the euphoria of the reunion and the start of intensive training, a first blow has occurred. Indeed, it has been reported that Didier Deschamps should have suddenly leaving the National Football Center this Tuesday, May 31, 2022.
The coach of the France team, with the authorization of the federation, urgently joined his family in the Basque Country after learning of the death of his father. “It is with great sadness that I learned of the disappearance of Didier’s father this morning. Didier went to join his family and I assure him of all my friendship and my support in this ordeal.“, said Noël Le Graët, the president of the FFF. “In this extremely painful moment for our coach, we are counting on you to respect his pain and his privacy.“, also asked the federation. The training of the Blues was thus entrusted by Didier Deschamps to his assistant Guy Stephanwho has accompanied him since 2009. The duration of his absence, however, has not been specified.
His passion for sport, Didier Deschamps inherited from his father Pierre. The latter was in fact a third line of Olympic Biarritz, a rugby club. His famous son, he finally preferred football. This allowed him to travel to the four corners of the world. But the coach’s heart has always remained in the South West. The same region in which he intends to return to settle later. “After my career I will go back to live there. I need my roots, to feel the warmth of the Basques. They have in them the true values, those of life“, he confided in 1998 for The Parisian. Thus, he will always be with his father.