Deschamps kicked out of French '98 champions' WhatsApp group, how he cut ties with old friends

2023-01-18 18:21:11Sport SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Deschamps kicked out of French '98 champions' WhatsApp group, how he
Didier Deschamps with the World Cup trophy in 1998

Although France was one step away from success in "Qatar 2022", Didier Deschamps has long been at the center of controversy. An almost paradoxical situation if you consider that for 60 years no national team has won two World Cups in a row.

But the "confrontation" with Zidane, who wanted the "Les Bleus" bench, and a series of situations outside the sport caused the coach of the French national team to be expelled from the chat group of the 1998 world champions on WhatsApp.

The news is reported by "L'Equipe", which writes that after years and years of great friendship, more than one thing has broken between the former Juventus midfielder and his teammates, with whom he won the 1998 World Cup in France. . There was a strong, almost family bond, but now Deschamps has been kicked out of that virtual chat group. In short, he was expelled.

The bond was strong, but perhaps over time, the horizons and perspectives of the coach and his teammates at that time have expanded more and more. And locker room rules apply to everyone, even whoever was captaining that team at the time.

Deschamps according to the group, also according to him is the administrator of the WhatsApp group of the 1998 world champions, would have been 'wrong'. Didier did not show up at two of their reunions.

It was absent on the day the 1998 world champions all but one celebrated the 50th birthday of Zinedine Zidane, who threw a huge party in Marrakech last June. Deschamps actually had a good reason to be absent, because his father had died that very day.

Then he gave up another dinner, the one held to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 1998 triumph (which actually hasn't passed yet, because it will be 25 years in July). This second absence sanctioned the final exclusion.

But always according to the French newspaper, it would be the fixed absence of Deschamps in the "chat", what his old friends or rather former friends did not like. He would never write there. Only they know why, but certainly the many expressions of appreciation for Zidane as coach of France certainly did not sit well with him.

The renewal until 2026, the last act of the federal president Le Graet, already in trouble for a sex scandal, has done nothing but worsen, in the eyes of his teammates, the situation of Deschamps, who must accept the expulsion from the group of champions 1998 and to respond again with excellent results on the bench of the Transalpine national team.


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