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Didier Deschamps
2026-11-15 09:52:28 · The Daily Ledger
Didier Deschamps (born 15 October 1968) is a former French football player who is currently the manager for the France national football team since 2012 and is set to leave after the 2022 FIFA World Cup. He has played for Juventus, Marseille, Nantes, Bordeaux, Chelsea, Valencia, and the France national football team.
He won the World Cup with France in 1998. As manager, he helped France win the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Club career statistics
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|1985/86||rowspan="5"|Nantes||rowspan="5"|Division 1||7||0||colspan="2"|-||1||0||8||0 |- |1986/87||19||0||colspan="2"|-||2||0||21||0 |- |1987/88||30||2||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||30||2 |- |1988/89||36||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||37||1 |- |1989/90||19||1||4||2||colspan="2"|-||23||3 |- |1989/90||Olympique Marseille||Division 1||17||1||3||1||4||0||24||2 |- |1990/91||Girondins Bordeaux||Division 1||29||3||5||0||4||0||38||3 |- |1991/92||rowspan="3"|Olympique Marseille||rowspan="3"|Division 1||36||4||11||0||4||0||51||4 |- |1992/93||36||1||7||0||11||0||54||1 |- |1993/94||34||0||8||0||colspan="2"|-||42||0

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|1994/95||rowspan="5"|Juventus||rowspan="5"|Serie A||14||1||2||0||6||0||22||1
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|1995/96||30||2||13||0||8||0||51||2
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|1996/97||26||1||7||1||10||0||43||2
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|1997/98||25||0||15||0||8||0||48||0
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|1998/99||28||0||9||0||9||0||46||0
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|1999/00||Chelsea||Premier League||26||0||16||0||13||1||55||1
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|2000/01||Valencia||La Liga||13||0||2||0||7||0||22||0
263||13||39||3||26||0||328||16
123||4||46||1||41||0||210||5
26||0||16||0||13||1||55||1
13||0||2||0||7||0||22||0
425||17||103||4||87||1||615||22
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International career statistics
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|1989||5||2
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|1990||6||1
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|1991||6||0
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|1992||11||0
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|1993||8||0
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|1994||4||0
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|1995||5||0
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|1996||12||0
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|1997||6||1
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|1998||17||0
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|1999||9||0
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|2000||14||0
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!Total||103||4
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References
1968 births
Living people
Footballers from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
French football managers
France at UEFA Euro 1992
France at UEFA Euro 1996
France at the 1998 FIFA World Cup
France at UEFA Euro 2000
France at the 2014 FIFA World Cup
France at UEFA Euro 2016
France at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
France at UEFA Euro 2020
France at the 2022 FIFA World Cup
People from Bayonne
