Deschamps wants to help rebuild France

(GSM) – Olympique Marseille boss Didier Deschamps has called on his fellow Ligue 1 managers to unite to help the France team overcome it’s “disastrous” image.

The Ligue 1 winning coach had won 103 caps for les Bleus and was an integral part of side, along with new France boss Laurent Blanc, which lifted the World Cup in 1998 and the European Championships two years later.

And the former France captain is expecting a different regime under former Bordeaux boss Blanc, following a difficult Raymond Domenech era which culminated in the country’s dismal World Cup campaign.

“I didn’t have any relationship at all (with Domenech), like the majority of my colleagues,” Deschamps told L’Equipe. “Above the fact that we know each other, that we call each other, Laurent has a different approach. We will adapt, we will give him information.

“This relationship between club and country is fundamental, it goes even further than the physical and medical domain. There are important information, this has to happen in the best way possible in a common interest, even if sometimes the interest of les Bleus is the opposite of that of the clubs.”

“The image of les Bleus is disastrous,” he added. “What I saw there is insupportable to me. Certain values have the tendency to disappear.

“In my career, les Bleus, well it was sacred. From the first to the 103rd selection, captain or not, I knew that I was privileged. Today, I see an important development some think that it is an end to be there. No, that’s not true!”