(FILES) French national soccer team players Didier Deschamps (L) and Zinedine Zidane do some stretching exercizes during a training session in Clairefontaine, outside Paris on June 15, 1998. France will play Saudi Arabia 18 June at the Stade de France, in Saint-Denis, in their second group C match of the 1998 Soccer World Cup. Zidane has been appointed as the new head coach of France national football team at the French Football Federation headquarters (FFF) in Paris on July 28, 2026. The former France playmaker, who won the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 European Championship as a player, has long been viewed as the leading candidate for the role and has been waiting for an opportunity to take charge of the national team for several years. (Photo by Gabriel BOUYS / AFP via Getty Images)