France national football team manager

In the early 20th century, the figure of manager as known today did not yet exist, so it was the captain who had the duty of making up the line-ups and dictating the tactics to be followed; therefore, some French football historians have argued that the first coach of France was Eugène Fraysse, the captain of the French team at the 1900 Olympic Games, who decided to select mostly players from the same club to ensure the cohesion of the team.

[1] The era of the captains came to an end with the introduction of the Commission Centrale d'Association, a selection committee headed by the USFSA.

In 1908, the USFSA left FIFA and its vacated place was quickly seized by French Interfederal Committee (CFI), whose president Charles Simon thus became the new coach of the national team, alongside Louis Chailloux.

[4] The CFI was a forerunner for the French Football Federation, and following its creation in 1919, the committee was converted into a five-man board and lasted for 45 years, from 1919 to 1964.

In 1998, Aimé Jacquet won the 1998 FIFA World Cup on home soil and, two years later, Roger Lemerre led the team to glory at UEFA Euro 2000.

[10] Finally, current manager Didier Deschamps won the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, twenty years after he lifted the trophy as captain.