Former France team coach Michel Hidalgo in February 2013 - FRANCK FIFE / AFP

Michel Hidalgo is no more. The former coach of the French football team died on Thursday at the age of 87. According to his family, quoted by L'Equipe , Hidalgo died of a long illness that had weakened him in recent years.

He will remain in the history of French football as the man who led the French football team to its first international title (Euro 1984), two years after having failed at the gates of the World Cup final. in 1982. His team, led by Michel Platini, was renowned for his fine play and a certain panache.

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