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.
this week. “We don’t even need to speak anymore. A glance is enough when we’re out on the pitch or at a training session; if something needs changing or tweaking, we just look at each other and – boom – it’s as if we’d actually spoken.”
France were ruthless in the first half as Stephan led them against Norway in the Group I decider in Boston.
Ousmane Dembele scored a wonderful quick-fire hat-trick to give Les Bleus a 3-1 lead before half time.
Stephan’s son, Julien, has been the head coach of Championship club Queens Park Rangers for a year and a day, having had two previous spells at Rennes either side of a couple of years in charge of Strasbourg.