
If Didier Deschamps leads France to victory in Germany, he will become only the second person, after German Berti Vogts, to win a European Championship as both a player and a manager.
And as politicians from across the spectrum ponder their words and antics ahead of the votes in France on 30 June and 7 July, France boss Deschamps will juggle with the tactics to enable his squad to seize the spoils they effectively threw away four years ago.