Didier Deschamps is the current coach of the French football team, put at the head of the Blues in 2012 by the president of the French Football Federation (FFF), Noël le Graët. The 98 (as a player) and 2018 (as coach) world champion is preparing to fly to Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. Certainly the coach’s last challenge with the blues. A look back at the background, salary, career and fortune of Didier Deschamps.
Didier Deschamps (full name Didier Claude Deschamps) was born on October 15, 1968 in Bayonne. His father was a house painter. His mother, Ginette, was a wool seller. His big brother, Pierre, was third row for the Biarritz Olympique club (Rugby). Didier is a child described as calm and studious. He developed a passion for football very early on. Although he did not imagine making it his career, he would subsequently become one of the most legendary figures in French football.
The career of the player Didier Deschamps
Didier Deschamps is the captain of the only French team to have already won the Champions League. He was one of the most talented midfielders of his generation, he began his career at the FC Nantes training center in 1983, at the age of 15.
His career in France
Two years later, it was with this same club that Didier Deschamps took his first steps as a professional, in Ligue 1. Passed by Marseille, then loaned to Bordeaux, he subsequently returned to the Marseille city, a club chaired by period by Bernard Tapie. OM dominates the French championship and Deschamps strongly contributes to Olympian victories both in France and on the European continent.
His career in Europe
It was in 1994 that the Basque decided to settle down in Turin, Italy, at Juventus. For 5 seasons, the midfielder and his team won national and international trophies. From 1994 to 1999, Didier Deschamps will considerably fill his trophy cabinet with 3 championships, 1 National Cup, 1 Super Cup, 1 Champions League, 1 European Super Cup and finally an Intercontinental Cup. At the end of his career, he went to the Chelsea club in England, where he won an English Cup. Then for his final season, Deschamps will head towards the sun of Spain under the colors of FC Valence.
The career of Didier Deschamps in the French team (EDF)
Didier Deschamps has played through all the EDF youth teams. It was Michel Platini, coach of the French team, in 1989, who offered him his first selection in A. Subsequently, Deschamps would become one of the most emblematic captains in the history of the EDF, offering a World Cup in 1998 as well as a European Cup in 2000. Under the colors of France, Didier Deschamps made 103 caps, 54 times captain, and 4 goals.
Deschamps: the transition as a coach
Coach Didier Deschamps
A playing career has just ended, Didier Deschamps signs a 4-year contract with AS Monaco as coach. Despite a complicated start on the bench for the Rouge et Blanc, he managed to take his team to the Champions League final in 2004, during a memorable epic which will remain forever engraved in the memories of Monegasque supporters. He would subsequently take charge of his favorite club, Olympique de Marseille, with which he won a French championship title.
Didier Deschamps coach of the Blues
Deschamps took over from Laurent Blanc as coach of the French team in 2012. His first international competition, the 2014 World Cup, was complicated. Indeed, the Blues lost in the quarter-final. The first good results will begin in 2016, during the Euro in France. The France team managed to reach the final, unfortunately losing its last match against Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal.
The pinnacle of his career as a coach arrives in Russia during the 2018 World Cup. Didier Deschamps will manage to return the EDF to the heights of world football, 20 years after his last coronation.
Didier Deschamps remains with the French team
While the future of Didier Deschamps in the French team was still unknown after the 2022 Football World Cup in Qatar, the Blues coach announced that he was extending his contract until 2026.
For the moment, we do not yet know if Didier Deschamps will keep his salary of 3.8 million euros per year or if his remuneration will be increased. However, it is possible that those who have managed to bring the French team to the World Cup final several times will see their salary increased.
A rather discreet private life
The current coach of the France team Didier Deschamps leads a life that can easily be described as discreet. Far from the hustle and bustle of the media and social networks. A simple life, which the Basque has led since his professional debut. If he has proven on numerous occasions that he knows how to make himself heard whether on the field or on the bench, in the context of his private life Didier Deschamps is a modest person.
How rich is Didier Deschamps?
Due to the personality of the coach of the France team, it is complicated to really estimate the amount of his fortune. Indeed, during his entire playing career, he never loudly proclaimed his salary. His salary has almost never been revealed to the general public.
However, as a coach a few figures managed to leak. If the sums of his coaching contract during his stints at Monaco and Juventus are still very well kept secret, we nevertheless know the outlines of the contract which linked him to Olympique de Marseille. Indeed, during the 3 seasons that the coach worked for the Marseille city (2009-2012), Didier Deschamps would have received a salary of around €300,000 per month or 3.6 million euros per year. Which fuels his fortune and his heritage.
Didier Deschamps’ salary in the French team
Didier Deschamps’ salary as coach of the France team is well known. The site The team indicated in 2017 that following the extension of his contract, Deschamps received an annual salary of 2 million euros.
5 years later, now less than a month before the World Cup, the salaries of all the coaches participating in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have been revealed by the Finance Football website. The current coach of the French team, reigning world champion, is positioned in 3rd position in this ranking, with an annual salary of 3.8 million euros.
Qatar 2022 World Cup coach salary rankings
| Rank | Selector | Nation | Annual salary |
| 1 | Hans-Dieter Flick | Germany | €6.5M |
| 2 | Gareth Southgate | England | €5.8M |
| 3 | Didier Deschamps | France | €3.8M |
| 4 | Titus | Brazil | €3.6M |
| 5 | Louis Van Gaal | The Netherlands | €2.9M |
| 6 | Gerardo Martino | Mexico | €2.9M |
| 7 | Lionel Scaloni | Argentina | €2.6M |
| 8 | Félix Sánchez Bas | Qatar | €2.4M |
| 9 | Fernando Santos | Portugal | €2.25M |
| 10 | Murat Yakin | Swiss | €1.6M |
| 11 | Paulo Bento | South Korea | €1.3M |
| 12 | Graham Arnold | Australia | €1.3M |
| 13 | Gregg Berhalter | UNITED STATES | €1.25M |
| 14 | Roberto Martinez | Belgium | €1.2M |
| 15 | Kasper Hjulmand | Denmark | €1.15M |
| 16 | Luis Enrique | Spain | €1.15M |
| 17 | Hervé Renard | Saudi Arabia | €1.1M |
| 18 | Hajime Moriyasu | Japan | €1.05M |
| 19 | Vahid Halilhodžić | Morocco | 920K |
| 20 | Diego Alonso | Uruguay | 860K |
| 21 | Gustavo J. Alfaro | Ecuador | 770K |
| 22 | Dragan Stojkovic | Serbia | 650K |
| 23 | Dragan Skočić | Iran | 650K |
| 24 | Zlatko Dalic | Croatia | 550K |
| 25 | Czeslaw Michniewicz | Poland | 500K |
| 26 | John Herdam | Canada | 480K |
| 27 | Chris Hughton | Ghana | 400K |
| 28 | Rob Page | Wales | 380K |
| 29 | Luis F. Suárez | Costa Rica | 350K |
| 30 | Rigobert Song | Cameroon | 340K |
| 31 | Aliou Cisse | Senegal | 310K |
| 32 | Jalel Kadri | Tunisia | 130K |
Source : Football Finance
