Deschamps tells why he weighs himself up to "three or four times a day"

He confided in length. As rarely. From his arrival in Nantes at the age of 14 to the title of world champion won last year in Russia, through suspicions of doping during his stay at Juventus and the Karim Benzema affair, Didier Deschamps engaged in the documentary "Didier against Deschamps" broadcast Friday night on TF1. In recounting his career and his various facets, the current coach of the France team also revealed that he was obsessed with … his weight.

Nicknamed "the fat man" by Coco Suaudeau

"I was traumatized with my weight when I was a player I come from a region where we like to eat well, and I have a body that reacts very quickly.When reading the menu, I take calories, it is already problematic, "he said with a smile. "I remember that Coco Suaudeau (his trainer in Nantes) called me" the big one. "And when I went on the scale … Even today, and I'm going for a patient, it happens to me to weigh three or four times a day, "he said.

An obsession confirmed by his companion, Claude. "In Marseille, I saw that he was getting fat, that he was going all the time to the fridge, that he needed it, but I was not going to add more to his uneasiness, I would not have told him anything. because at that moment he would not have been ready to hear it, he needed to take refuge (in the food), "she said.