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France aren’t just boring under Deschamps. Now the fear is they’re not particularly good
It was just over two decades ago, 30km down the road here from Dortmund, that Didier Deschamps contested his first major final as a manager. His Monaco side were defeated 3-0 by Jose Mourinho’s Porto in Gelsenkirchen in the most unlikely final of the …