"The French national team is not private property": Nabil Djellit comments on Didier Deschamps' departure

After a long 14-year reign, Didier Deschamps is stepping down as manager of the French national team. The 57-year-old coach has won almost everything with Les Bleus. Nabil Djellit paid tribute to him during his recent appearance on the Radio Foot Internationale program broadcast on RFI.

"The French team has won two World Cups. There are two stars, one of them is for him."

The employee of France Football magazine believes that Deschamps was a "great national coach".

“The French national team has won two World Cups. There are two stars, and one belongs to him. It's important to remember that he took over the French team at a time when things were a bit complicated. He instilled his winning mentality, his tactical approach inherited from his time in Italy. Sometimes we got bored. Some will say: 'Yes, with the resources he had, with the talent he had, he didn't win enough,' but I remember that the Netherlands, with Cruyff and Van Basten, golden generations of certain countries, didn't win anything,” the sports commentator stated, before criticizing the recent remarks of the Bayonne native. “He said: 'I left because it was becoming a bit unbearable.' The French national team isn't private property. It's not a monarchy. I mean, at some point, you have to know when to leave and let others take over, and that's what happened now,” Nabil Djellit declared.

"Personally, I would have preferred him to leave either after the last European Championship or after the World Cup in Qatar."

He believes that the French coach should have left his post a few years ago. "As they say in boxing, for me, he had one or two fights too many. One or two terms too many. I would have preferred him to leave either after the last European Championship or after the (World Championship in) Qatar, to breathe new life into things, because there was also a kind of weariness among the observers," the sports journalist believes.