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Didier Deschamps

Deschamps as France manager in 2018

Personal information

Full name

\nDidier Claude Deschamps^[1]

Date of birth

\n15 October 1968 (age 56)^[2]

Place of birth

\nBayonne, France

Height

\n1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)^[3]^[4]

Position(s)

\nDefensive midfielder

Team information

Current team

\nFrance (manager)

Youth career

1976\u20131983

\nBayonne

1983\u20131985

\nNantes

Senior career\"

Years

\nTeam

\nApps

\n(Gls)

1985\u20131989

\nNantes

\n111

\n(4)

1989\u20131994

\nMarseille

\n123

\n(6)

1990\u20131991

\n\u2192 Bordeaux (loan)

\n29

\n(3)

1994\u20131999

\nJuventus

\n124

\n(4)

1999\u20132000

\nChelsea

\n27

\n(0)

2000\u20132001

\nValencia

\n14

\n(0)

Total

\n427

\n(17)

International career

1988\u20131989

\nFrance U21

\n18

\n(0)

1989\u20132000

\nFrance

\n103

\n(4)

Managerial career

2001\u20132005

\nMonaco

2006\u20132007

\nJuventus

2009\u20132012

\nMarseille

2012\u2013

\nFrance

Medal record

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Men's football\n
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Representing $\"\"$ France (as player)\n
FIFA World Cup\n
Winner	1998 France	\n
UEFA European Championship\n
Winner	2000 Belgium\u2013Netherlands	\n
Representing $\"\"$ France (as manager)\n
FIFA World Cup\n
Winner	2018 Russia	\n
Runner-up	2022 Qatar	\n
UEFA Nations League\n
Winner	2021 Italy	\n
UEFA European Championship\n
Runner-up	2016 France	\n

\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals

Didier Claude Deschamps (French pronunciation: [didje klod de\u0283\u0251\u0303];^[5] born 15 October 1968) is a French professional football manager and former player who has been managing the France national team since 2012. He played as a defensive midfielder for several clubs, in France, Italy, England and Spain, namely Marseille, Juventus, Chelsea and Valencia, as well as Nantes and Bordeaux. Nicknamed \"the water-carrier\" (French: le porteur d'eau), Deschamps was an intelligent and hard-working defensive midfielder who excelled at winning back possession and subsequently starting attacking plays, and also stood out for his leadership throughout his career. As a French international, he was capped on 103 occasions and took part at three UEFA European Football Championships and one FIFA World Cup, captaining his nation to victories in the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000.\n

In addition to winning two Division 1 titles in 1990 and 1992, Deschamps was part of the Marseille squad that became the first, and so far only, French club to win the UEFA Champions League, a feat which the team achieved in 1993; with the Champions League victory, Deschamps became the youngest captain ever to lead his team to win the title. With Juventus he played three Champions League finals in a row between 1996 and 1998, winning the title in 1996. With the Turin side, he also won the UEFA Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup, as well as three Serie A titles, among other trophies. With Chelsea, he won the 1999\u20132000 FA Cup, and also reached another Champions League final with Valencia in 2001, before retiring later that season. After Franz Beckenbauer and followed by Iker Casillas, he was only the second captain in the history of football to have lifted the Champions League trophy, the World Cup trophy, and the European Championship trophy.^[6]\n

As a manager, Deschamps began his career with Monaco, and helped the club to win the Coupe de la Ligue in 2003, and reached the 2004 UEFA Champions League Final, being named Ligue 1 Manager of the Year in 2004. During the 2006\u201307 season, he helped his former club Juventus win the Serie B title and return to Serie A following their relegation due to their involvement in the 2006 Calciopoli Scandal the previous season. He subsequently managed another one of his former clubs, Marseille, where he won the Ligue 1 title during the 2009\u201310 season, as well as three consecutive Coupe de la Ligue titles between 2010 and 2012, and consecutive Troph\u00e9e des Champions titles in 2010 and 2011.\n

On 8 July 2012, Deschamps was named as the new manager of the France national team. He led the team to the quarter-finals of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the final of UEFA Euro 2016, victory in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and a back-to-back final appearance in the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Upon winning the World Cup in 2018, Deschamps became the third man to win the World Cup as both a player and a manager, alongside M\u00e1rio Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer\u2014both of whom died in January 2024 two days apart, leaving Deschamps the only living man to have reached the milestone. Deschamps follows Beckenbauer as only the second to do so as captain.^[7]\n

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Club\n	Season\n	League\n	National cup^[a]\n	Europe\n	Other\n	Total\n
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals\n
Nantes\n	1985\u201386\n	Division 1\n	7	0	0	0	1	0	\u2014	8	0\n
1986\u201387\n	Division 1\n	19	0	1	0	2^[b]	0	\u2014	22	0\n
1987\u201388\n	Division 1\n	30	2	3	0	\u2014	\u2014	33	2\n
1988\u201389\n	Division 1\n	36	1	5	0	\u2014	\u2014	41	1\n
1989\u201390\n	Division 1\n	19	1	0	0	\u2014	\u2014	19	1\n
Total\n	111	4	9	0	!3	0	0	0	123	4\n
Marseille\n	1989\u201390\n	Division 1\n	17	1	5	3	4^[c]	0	\u2014	26	4\n
1991\u201392\n	Division 1\n	36	4	4	0	4^[c]	0	\u2014	44	4\n
1992\u201393\n	Division 1\n	36	1	3	0	11^[d]	0	\u2014	50	1\n
1993\u201394\n	Division 1\n	34	0	4	0	\u2014	\u2014	38	0\n
Total\n	123	6	16	3	19	0	0	0	158	9\n
Bordeaux (loan)\n	1990\u201391\n	Division 1\n	29	3	1	0	4^[b]	0	\u2014	34	3\n
Juventus\n	1994\u201395\n	Serie A\n	14	1	3	0	6^[b]	0	\u2014	23	1\n
1995\u201396\n	Serie A\n	30	2	1	0	8^[d]	0	1^[e]	0	40	2\n
1996\u201397\n	Serie A\n	26	1	3	0	10^[d]	0	2^[f]	0	41	1\n
1997\u201398\n	Serie A\n	25	0	0	0	8^[d]	0	1^[e]	0	34	0\n
1998\u201399\n	Serie A\n	29	0	1	0	9^[d]	0	1^[e]	0	40	0\n
Total\n	124	4	8	0	41	0	5	0	178	4\n
Chelsea\n	1999\u20132000^[83]\n	Premier League\n	27	0	6	0	14^[d]	1	\u2014	47	1\n
Valencia\n	2000\u201301\n	La Liga\n	13	0	1	0	7^[d]	0	\u2014	21	0\n
Career total\n	427	17	41	3	88	1	5	0	561	21\n

National team	Year	Apps	Goals\n
France\n	1989	5	2\n
1990	6	1\n
1991	6	0\n
1992	11	0\n
1993	8	0\n
1994	4	0\n
1995	5	0\n
1996	12	0\n
1997	6	1\n
1998	17	0\n
1999	9	0\n
2000	14	0\n
Total	103	4\n

No.\n	Date\n	Venue\n	Opponent\n	Score\n	Result\n	Competition\n
1	11 October 1989	Parc des Princes, Paris, France	$\"\"$ Scotland	1\u20130	3\u20130	1990 FIFA World Cup qualification\n
2	18 November 1989	Stadium Municipal, Toulouse, France	$\"\"$ Cyprus	1\u20130	2\u20130	1990 FIFA World Cup qualification\n
3	24 January 1990	Al-Sadaqua Walsalam, Kuwait City, Kuwait	$\"\"$ East Germany	3\u20130	3\u20130	Friendly\n
4	22 January 1997	Est\u00e1dio Primeiro de Maio, Braga, Portugal	$\"\"$ Portugal	1\u20130	2\u20130	Friendly\n

Team\n	From\n	To\n	Record\n
G	W	D	L	Win %\n
Monaco\n	1 July 2001\n	19 September 2005\n	220\n	110\n	59\n	51\n	050.00\n
Juventus\n	10 July 2006\n	26 May 2007\n	43\n	30\n	11\n	2\n	069.77\n
Marseille\n	1 July 2009\n	2 July 2012\n	163\n	82\n	40\n	41\n	050.31\n
France\n	8 July 2012\n	Present\n	165\n	105\n	34\n	26\n	063.64\n
Total\n	591\n	327\n	144\n	120\n	055.33\n

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External links

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