It’s in two dailies, The Parisian And Le Figaro, that the coach of the Blues confides. Referring to the departure of the president of the FFF, Didier Deschamps evokes the “ personal situation of his friend Noël Le Graët, while considering that the opening of a preliminary investigation for “moral and sexual harassment” and the audit report on the functioning of the federation put “ in difficulty the institution and probably French football as a whole “. This resignation? ” It was the president’s decision, not mine.says the person concerned. Like any coach, I was subject to an obligation of result. If I’m still here, it’s because the objectives have been achieved “, while sighing:” Whatever I say, I know my words will be interpreted. If I defend him, people will say it’s because he prolonged me. If I criticize him, they will say that I let him go because he is gone “, said Didier Deschamps to these two daily newspapers.
In these two interviews, Didier Deschamps looks back on the World Cup final, lost to Lionel Messi’s Argentina on penalties. The competition was far from being a long calm river he sighs, pointing the absence of very important players… “, including Karim Benzema. From a medical point of view, we did things as we had to and Karim knows it well […] Karim told me himself that he would not have been ready “.
New Saturday of demonstrations in France
In the showdown between the intersyndicale and the government, Release perceives as a “great wavering”. Because while the parliamentary course of this reform project continues laboriously, ” it emerges from each of the major players in the current crisis – executive, unions, opinion – like a scent of uncertainty, appreciate this daily. The president, his government, his majority have been on sight for quite some time. Their tactical hesitations, their vague argumentation and a cacophonous communication give since the first day the feeling of a course certainly fixed on the postponement of the legal age to 64 years, but without a clear path to get there. […] the fragility of his deal with the right continues to give the executive cold sweats. That he has to resort to adopting his reform to one more 49.3 cannot be ruled out. The means of adopting the text remain in any case impenetrable for the time being “.
However, admits Libé, ” the unions, too, paradoxically, are floating. Or rather will enter a period of uncertainty. They have since the beginning, in an almost faultless inter-union, held their course. And the demonstrations organized this Saturday should provide further proof of this. But they know that for them too, the hour of “money time” approach, and despite the mobilizations “historical” registered from the beginning, their situation is not so comfortable “.
Since then, Release asks himself ” how to manage a success that for the moment has not changed anything ? Hardening the movement is an option for some, but it is not obvious. What has been going on for a week proves it. If this blocks here and there, France is not at a standstill, far from it. It takes time ? Unions don’t. The trade union dilemma is partly explained by the hesitation of the last player in this crisis : public opinion. She too hesitates between a rejection of the reform which cannot be denied, and an anchored fatalism that it will end up being adopted. It’s been true from the start. It didn’t move », admits Libé, referring to “ a kind of indecision “.