Photo courtesy of zimbio.com. Will Didier Deschamps (pictured above) be able to restore order with French soccer?
By Nick Craddock
The French football team has found itself in what is becoming a familiar predicament: In shambles following a major tournament.
Enter former national team hero, Didier Deschamps, introduced as the manager of France over the weekend to salvage the national side from the guillotine of the soccer world’s critics and naysayers. The only man capable of doing so.
Deschamps, captain of France’s 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000 championship-winning teams, was the natural choice — the only choice — to lead France back to respectability following another disappointing major tournament, this time at Euro 2012. As a result, Deschamps’ former national teammate Laurent Blanc took the fall for the team’s poor performance and stepped down as the France manager. Continue reading
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