France head coach Didier Deschamps, who led Les Bleus to a World Cup win in 2018 and a final loss in 2022, did not take his place in the technical area for his team’s last group stage fixture at World Cup 2026.
Deschamps, who also won the World Cup as France’s captain and is managing his last matches with the national team before his contract runs out at the end of the current tournament, returned to France this week to attend the funeral of his mother.
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