Laurent Blanc, former French national team coach (2010-2012) and Paris Saint-Germain coach (2013-2016) now at Al-Ittihad, ...

Zidane and Desailly won the 1998 World Cup with France, with Laurent Blanc also pictured. ... Zidane, 51, took charge of the first team in January 2016 and guided them to a second-place finish in ...

Former French international Marcel Desailly claimed that Real Madrid icon Zinedine Zidane turned down managerial offers from Manchester United and Chelsea as he prefers to manage the national team.

Zinedine Zidane turned down blank cheques to join Manchester United and Chelsea as manager, according to his former France team-mate Marcel Desailly. Zidane has only ever managed Real Madrid at ...

Former France international Marcel Desailly has revealed that Zinedine Zidane turned down lucrative offers from Premier League giants Manchester United and Chelsea, opting instead to bide his time for ...

Marcel Desially has said his former France team-mate, Zinedine Zidane, wants the national team job. According to him, Zidane turned down offers from Manchester United and Chelsea. Desailly claims ...

Fast-forward a quarter of a century and Deschamps announced in January he will step down as Les Bleus' head coach following the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada ...

France strikers Kylian Mbappé and Randal Kolo Muani continued their rich vein of form over the weekend to stake their claim in Didier Deschamps' starting line-up for the national team in the ...

“I did my time, with the same desire and the same passion to keep the French team at the highest level, but 2026 is all very well.” Deschamps started in his role as a successor to Laurent Blanc.

Blanc, Lilian Thuram and Bixente Lizarazu were the other pillars of a defensive unit that proved instrumental in France's 1998 triumph. Blanc, who was suspended for the final in Paris, hung up his ...