Coach Didier Deschamps' road to glory

On July 15, 2018, history once again called the name of the French team when they had the honor of lifting the championship trophy for the second time in history after defeating Croatia 4-2 in the final match at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia.

The 2018 World Cup winning French team that coach Didier Deschamps brought to Russia was a powerful combination of rising stars like Paul Pogba, Antonie Griezmann, N'Golo Kante, Varane, Mendy and talented young stars like Kylian Mbappe, Matudi, Thomas Lemar, Lucas Hernandez.

By leading the French team to victory at the biggest football festival on the planet held in Russia, bringing the championship to the French team after 20 years of waiting, the coach born in 1968 deserved to be voted the best coach of 2018.

France won the 2018 World Cup. Photo: Internet

The history of the World Cup has only witnessed Mario Zagallo (Brazil) and "Emperor" Frank Beckenbauer (Germany) winning the championship as a player and later leading their home team, but now the history of world football has added another name, Coach Didier Deschamps, winning the championship in both positions as a player and coach of the French team.

It can be said that Didier Deschamps is a talented player and a talented coach because in most of his career as a player and coach, he has won noble titles at club level as well as the national team.

He won the Champions League twice, once with Marseille and once with Juventus. He won the European Super Cup, the Intercontinental Cup (now FIFA World Cup Club), three Serie A titles; the FA Cup with Chelsea in 2000 and reached the Champions League final with Valencia in 2001.

Didier Deschamps was a world champion in 1998 and two years later he won Euro 2000.

Didier Deschamps in Juventus shirt as a player. Photo: Internet

Coach Deschamps' coaching career was also extremely impressive. Two years after his suspension, he helped his former team Monaco win the French League Cup, brought Juventus back to Serie A in 2007 after the Italian football match-fixing scandal, and helped Marseille win the French championship for the first time in 18 years in his first season as coach of this team.

After being chosen to replace coach L.Blanc after Euro 2012 ended, Deschamps breathed new life into Les Bleus with optimistic signals about the future of French football such as reaching the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup and the final of Euro 2016.

Back to the brilliant journey in Russia in the summer of 2018. Overcoming the barriers of skepticism and controversy from the French Football Federation about the use of people and building the style of play, Deschamps proved that his football philosophy was completely correct by letting Giroud play as a central striker, promoting the roles of Mbappe and Grieznn well.

Using two very young full-backs who are capable of attacking and defending, tight, not possessing the ball much, the striker as a wall, attracting defenders, the striker is fast, strong, has good finishing and makes the most of set pieces, as long as they do not concede goals, France's chances will come. 3/4 of the French defenders have scored. Varane and Umtiti played the role of heroes in the quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively.

LV Didier Deschamps at the 2018 Best Coach award ceremony. Photo: Internet

The French team chose a safe playing style throughout the tournament, the players strictly followed the tactics of the coach who instructed "Les Blues" to play with a low, multi-layered defense, even the strikers also retreated to defend.

The French team does not lack world-class attacking players such as Paul Pogba, Kylian Mbappe, Griezmann... but the victory of the French team at this World Cup was built by a talented, experienced strategist with a philosophy based on tightness, not on moments of ecstasy.

With his achievement of helping the French team win the World Cup 2018 in Russia, Coach Deschamps deserves to be voted the best coach of 2018./.