FLASH
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A joke before every answer, a smile that de-dramatizes everything surrounding football. Didie Deschamps (Bajon, 1968) wants to be the first to be European champion as a protagonist on the field (2000) and as a coach.
German Berti Vogts, coach to Germany's last European title (1996), was in the 1972 team but did not play a single minute. Didie came very close in Saint-Denis in 2016, but Portuguese Eder's goal denied him. Since then they have had that thorn in their side: "It was difficult". Behind that smile there is an extraordinary human story of this Frenchman, who has never exposed his personal life. Death passed his way too soon. And twice even. Christmas in their house has not been a time for joy since 1987. His family was preparing to celebrate the holidays in Angle.
On December 21, his brother Filip took flight "AF 1919", of the Brussels-Bordeaux line. The departure, at 12:30, happened normally, but the plane on which Didie Deschamps' brother was traveling never landed. Bad weather complicated the maneuver and the pilot was unable to prevent the plane from crashing. All 16 passengers (13 passengers, the pilot and a flight attendant) lost their lives. Didier Deschamps was 19 years old when he took this shot that would forever mark his career and life. But it was not the first time that life showed him its crueler side. Three years before his brother's fatal accident, playing in Nantes' youth team, he built a solid friendship with Marcel Desai. On November 16, 1984, Desai's brother, Seth Adonko, was killed in a car accident. He also played in Nantes' youth team. No team manager had the guts to tell Desai.
At the age of 16, Deschamps took on this difficult responsibility. Perhaps this is the reason why Deschamps' skin is tougher than normal and he endures criticism without getting upset, which in this European have not been few. The world champion in 2018 as a coach, as he was also a player in 1998 on the field, and the second in Qatar, has long known that football is just that, football. And that the extraordinary things in life do not depend on a goal or a change.
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