"he stole my dream", "she doesn’t really care about me" : Pain, Samir Nasri, reckoning with Didier Deschamps

Since retraining as a consultant, Samir Nasri has made a habit of saying what he thinks. This Monday, April 10, the former professional football player appeared on the show. Free Spinning Zack, streamed live on Zack Nani’s Youtube channel. On this occasion, the 35-year-old man returned to his entire career, including the years he spent in the France team from 2007-2013. In 41 elections, Marseille native Raymond Domenech (2007-2010), Laurent Blanc (2010-2012) and Didier Deschamps (2012-2013). With the latter, the current had a hard time getting through, as Samir Nasri recounts: “When Deschamps took over in 2012, I was suspended for three games (editor’s note, for insulting a journalist at the Euro). I had an argument with him during the Euro. But when I was no longer suspended, I was not elected. I’m a newbie at Manchester City, I’m off to a great start to the season, at least you can: Call me and say “I won’t pick you for one reason or another”. I don’t play for Orléans or Quevilly, I play for Manchester City, I’m a beginner, I play for the championship. Give me a phone call, don’t say something simple like “We have the same manager (Jean-Pierre Bernès) and I’ll get the message across to him through the manager”. Especially for talking to you during the Euro and telling me that I’m going to be someone important.“

Frustrated, Samir Nasri decides to belittle Didier Deschamps: “He called me in 2013 to tour Uruguay and Brazil, but I was on vacation in Los Angeles. He called me, but I said to myself: It’s not going to ruin my holidays. I said no, I was injured, I said I have tendinitis. He told me to try to do a session and he would call me in an hour and a half. I went to the poolside, sunbathed, and after 1:30 he called me back. I told him my knee was hurting so bad and I wasn’t going.“Finally, Nasri joined the Blues in the following meetings where the famous World Cup qualifying play-offs against Ukraine were held in August, September, October and November, the player’s last appearance in the EDF: “From this game, the last. There are versions out. I was not good at all in Ukraine. Some said that players complained about my behavior there. I don’t know what my behavior is. When I lost a game, it wasn’t the end of the world for me.“

For this reason, Samir Nasri is not included in the World Cup selection to be held in Brazil in 2014. A real disappointment for the former Manchester City midfielder who still wants Didier Deschamps:My job was to play a World Cup in the football country of Brazil. I had a crazy season, I told myself I was going to Brazil and screwing up the World Cup. I still believed. We just became champions, I scored in the final (League Cup), he will take me. This World Cup is a Bowl, the summit. I wanted to play… I went crazy when I saw the actors go there. When I saw the men going there instead of me, I said to myself: he really doesn’t care about me.“

Samir Nasri has never tried to reconcile with Didier Deschamps since the end of his career. Consultant for today channel+Marseille is not ready to have their former manager in their hearts: “I met him recently at a restaurant in Dubai. He looked at me, then averted his eyes. I got up, walked past his desk, but to him: Hello, you didn’t take me. For two years, I was hated for not being right not to play. After that it’s over. I don’t want him hurt, he made choices. If I want to be a coach tomorrow, this thing could happen to me. I wish him all the happiness in the world, I don’t care. It’s just that he’s not my friend and I won’t say hello to him because I don’t like him as a person.“

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