Defeat in the World Cup final could be Didier Deschamps’ last job on the bench of France. A day after the sad and painful blow from Argentina in the spectacular final, the French public is thinking a lot about the future and the next steps of the national team, and above all who will lead Les Bleus in the coming years.The most influential media in that country deal with this topic. The French Football Association is ready to negotiate with Deschamps regarding the extension of the contract, which officially expires on the last day of December. The longtime coach has not yet made a final decision on whether he will continue the job he started more than ten years ago. The president of the Association, Noel Le Graet, plans to speak with Deschamps by phone no later than Wednesday evening, in order to schedule a meeting for the first days of 2023 and make a decision as soon as possible on whether to continue the cooperation or not.🚨🥇| If Deschamps renews his contract with the French National Team, Zidane will immediately start looking for a club. @lequipe pic.twitter.com/Ghqt7Lz09z— Madrid Xtra (@MadridXtra) December 20, 2022 The first man of the French federation assured the local public during the World Cup that Deschamps will have the opportunity to choose whether he wants to continue what he started if he leads the team to the semi-finals in Qatar. He fulfilled that goal, he even almost defended the title won in 2018 in Russia, so it is up to the former midfielder to choose the next step in his coaching career.In the media, there has been uncertainty about his future for months. He stays, he doesn’t, on repeat. After the match with Argentina, he did not want to talk about the next step, and his agent and friend Jean-Pierre Bernes told Radio Monte Carlo that the popular Didi needs a few days to rest, to let the adrenaline subside so that the final decision can be made with a cool head.As announced by RMC, Le Graet is ready to offer Deschamps a contract until the end of the 2024 European Championship, while the team claims that the selector will agree to stay only if he is allowed to complete the full cycle, i.e. until July 2026. Even the president of the country, Emmanuel Macron, intervened in the whole story, who allegedly already whispered to Deschamps during yesterday’s medal awarding ceremony that he would like to see him continue in the role of the national team coach.##EDITORS_CHOICE##Not only France is waiting for the final decision, but also for Zinedine Zidane. It’s no secret that Zizu has been looking for the position of Les Bleus coach for a long time and that’s why he refused to lead Paris Saint-Germain. If before the World Cup it was certain that Deschamps was leaving, now it is not so much because he would prefer to continue his work, but on his own terms. More sides are pushing for Deschamps to stay and if that really happened, Zidane would definitely return to the club market and look for a new engagement.Deschamps did a lot with France. He led to the final of the European Championship in 2016, where Portugal was better, then he took the World Cup trophy two years later in Russia and then reached the final in Qatar. His former teammate Zidane dreams of the bench of France, just as every Frenchman dreams of him as a coach. And that’s a dream that will come true one day. The only question is whether in 2023 or a little later.##NAJAVA_MECA_6900593##Everything depends on the decision of the first man of the federation. His mandate expires in 2024, which would mean that by possibly accepting Deschamps’ condition to get a contract until 2026, he leaves a coach to his successor, which some see as a potential problem. The two reportedly had some disagreements in recent months, but that shouldn’t be an obstacle, especially since Deschamps has the freedom to make his own choices.It now remains to be seen the outcome of the key meeting in January…
