“That means the job is well done. This is collective work. It’s important to be in the final stages of competitions. Other major football nations, competitors, cannot say the same, we have to be satisfied with that,” he declared to AFP, after having expressed his mea-culpa concerning the process he wanted set up for penalty shootouts in the French teams.
“To be as successful as this year is historic and exceptional. Futsal qualifies for its first World Cup, the different women’s selections, for whom it has not always been easy, are all there. And the boys have shown, for 5 or 6 years, incredible regularity. “In front of all these selections, there is a locomotive led by Didier Deschamps. And Didier set the bar very high, it forces everyone else to follow suit,” he continued.