{"id":515680,"date":"2026-07-28T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=515680"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:48:12","slug":"zidane-becomes-frances-head-coach-officially","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/zidane-becomes-frances-head-coach-officially\/","title":{"rendered":"Zidane becomes France&#8217;s head coach officially"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane has been confirmed as the manager of the France national team.<\/p>\n<p>Didier Deschamps, the country\u2019s longest-serving head coach, ending his 14-year period at the helm after France\u2019s \u00bd final elimination to Spain at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Zinedine, who lifted the World Cup with his nation in 1998, has not been a head coach since leaving Los Blancos after his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> time as manager in 2021. He will ink a deal to remain as head coach at least until the 2030 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>After the news of his appointment, Zidane shared with the media that he is proud and happy to become the head coach of his country:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had said it several times in the past: there is nothing greater than our national team. So without a doubt it\u2019s joy and pride to be the head coach of France.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zidane also thanked the French governing football body for the chance that they gave him after Deschamps department.<\/p>\n<p>Zinedine will have the chance to debut very soon in a competitive match as France will face Turkey away from home on September 25<sup>th<\/sup> in the Nations League.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Zinedine Zidane has been confirmed as the new head coach of the France men\u2019s national team, replacing Didier Deschamps.<\/p>\n<p>It was widely expected that Zidane would take over from Deschamps, who confirmed in January 2025 that he was going to leave his role at the end of the 2026\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4LyCm2aqYD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4LyCm2aqYD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/2082038462442545434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">July 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane has been confirmed as the manager of the France national team. Didier Deschamps, the country\u2019s longest-serving head coach, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":515681,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17142,17901],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17862,17903],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"He is returning to managing after a long pause.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/515680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/515680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515682,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/515680\/revisions\/515682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515680"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=515680"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=515680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}