- Zinedine Zidane will become France’s next national team coach following the World Cup
- Didier Deschamps has led the national team for 13 years with 106 wins in 166 matches
- Zidane previously won the Champions League three times in a row with Real Madrid
Key Takeaways:
Zinedine Zidane, world champion in 1998 and European champion in 2000, will take charge of the French national football team after the World Cup next year.
This was reported by RMC journalist Gilbert Brisbois, whose comments were cited by the Spanish outlet Defensa Central. Earlier this year, Zidane rejected a lucrative offer from Saudi Arabia, with his only intention being to coach France.
🚨 JUST IN: Zinedine Zidane has rejected a 1 year/ €100M offer from Saudi Arabia.
He wants to coach France NT. @lequipe pic.twitter.com/OUaxKCc4Rw
— Madrid Zone (@theMadridZone) May 31, 2025
Didier Deschamps, now 56, has been in charge of the French national team for 13 years. Under his leadership, Les Bleus have played 166 matches, winning 106 times, drawing 31 times, and suffering 29 defeats.
With Deschamps at the helm, Les Bleus won the World Cup in 2018, the Nations League in 2022, and also finished as runners-up at the European Championship in 2016 and the World Cup in 2022.
Zinedine Zidane, 53, last managed Real Madrid, where he was in charge from 2019 to 2021, and earlier from 2016 to 2018, when he achieved an unprecedented success in the Champions League by winning it three consecutive times. No team before or since has triumphed in three straight editions of the tournament. Under his guidance, Los Blancos also won La Liga twice, and the Spanish Super Cup twice.
During his playing career, Zidane represented French clubs Cannes and Bordeaux, Italian side Juventus, and Real Madrid, with whom he won the Spanish league title in 2003 and scored the winning goal in the 2002 Champions League final against Bayer Leverkusen. He also won two Serie A titles with Juventus.
For the French national team, he played 108 matches, scored 31 goals, and provided 29 assists. He was a World Cup winner in 1998, a runner-up in 2006, and European champion in 2000.