Deschamps pledges all help to Blanc
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July 26, 2010, Monday
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MARSEILLE coach Didier Deschamps has pledged to give his full cooperation to France coach Laurent Blanc's efforts to rebuild the national team following its disastrous World Cup campaign in South Africa.
France went out in the group stage and former coach Raymond Domenech's controversial reign ended shamefully when his whole squad went on strike in protest at Nicolas Anelka's expulsion from the tournament following an expletive-filled rant at Domenech.
Blanc's request to ban all the players who went on strike for his opening match against Norway in next month's friendly was upheld by the French Football Federation.
With France desperate to rebuild its image after its shambolic display, Deschamps feels that Blanc will need all the help he can get.
"This relationship between club and country is fundamental, it even goes beyond the physical and medical aspect," Deschamps said in an interview with sports daily L'Equipe published on Saturday. "This has to happen in the best way possible and in a common interest, even if sometimes the interest of Les Bleus is the opposite to that of the clubs."
The hugely unpopular Domenech had a brittle relationship with club coaches and Deschamps said that, "like the majority of my colleagues," he had absolutely no communication with Domenech when he selected players for his squads.
Deschamps and Blanc have a closer relationship after having played together when France won the World Cup in 1998 and the European Championship two years later, and Deschamps expects that to help matters during Blanc's tenure.
Following the Norway friendly, Blanc has a Euro 2012 qualifier against Belarus on September 3.
France went out in the group stage and former coach Raymond Domenech's controversial reign ended shamefully when his whole squad went on strike in protest at Nicolas Anelka's expulsion from the tournament following an expletive-filled rant at Domenech.
Blanc's request to ban all the players who went on strike for his opening match against Norway in next month's friendly was upheld by the French Football Federation.
With France desperate to rebuild its image after its shambolic display, Deschamps feels that Blanc will need all the help he can get.
"This relationship between club and country is fundamental, it even goes beyond the physical and medical aspect," Deschamps said in an interview with sports daily L'Equipe published on Saturday. "This has to happen in the best way possible and in a common interest, even if sometimes the interest of Les Bleus is the opposite to that of the clubs."
The hugely unpopular Domenech had a brittle relationship with club coaches and Deschamps said that, "like the majority of my colleagues," he had absolutely no communication with Domenech when he selected players for his squads.
Deschamps and Blanc have a closer relationship after having played together when France won the World Cup in 1998 and the European Championship two years later, and Deschamps expects that to help matters during Blanc's tenure.
Following the Norway friendly, Blanc has a Euro 2012 qualifier against Belarus on September 3.
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