Didier Deschamps will pass his hundredth match on the bench of the French team, this Sunday night against Albania. Champion of the world as a player and coach, "DD" marks a little more of his borrows the history of French football.

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Winner of Moldova last Thursday, the team of France assured its qualification for Euro 2020. Sunday night in Tirana, it will be question of ensuring the first place of the group. In addition to the sporting aspect, this match in Albania will mark the hundredth of Didier Deschamps on the bench of the French team. The coach of the Blues is proud of "this longevity at the highest level."

A hundred games at the head of the Blues in seven years is much more than Raymond Domenech, who coached the team of France during seventy-nine games and it is almost twice the spiritual father of Didier Deschamps, Aimé Jacquet who only managed fifty-three. This says a lot about the path left by "DD".

103 selections as player, 100 matches as coach

"It's a number that represents a lot, especially longevity at the highest level, I was very proud to reach this hundred-cap mark as a player, I'm perhaps even more proud to cross this bar in as a coach, it's more complicated, it goes through good results "smiles the coach to Europe 1.

As coach of the Blues, Didier Deschamps has been a quarter-finalist of the 2014 World Cup, finalist at Euro 2016 and world champion in 2018. The goalkeeper of the French team Steve Mandanda does not miss either to praise his former coach at Olympique de Marseille: "It is a coach who wins, lasts, who is always positive.He also knows how to inculcate 'the win', simply."

>>> Albania-France is available live on Europe 1 from 20h with Lionel Rosso.