The 57-year-old coach – who announced in January 2025 he wouldn’t be extending his contract beyond the upcoming World Cup – knows his team will be one of the favourites to win the tournament but thinks his players perform better when they don’t get too “comfortable”.

He told World Soccer magazine:” I have ambition and I want the players to have it too, but I don’t want us to lose our humility.

“We need everything to be stronger than the others. I won’t hide and say that we aren’t one of the teams that can be world champions, but there are eight to ten temas that can say that.

“It’s not by shouting, ‘We are the best, we are the strongest’.

“From experience, it isn’t when a French sportsman is feeling comfortable that they are better.”

Didier denied he feels extra pressure to win his final World Cup in charge f France, who he has managed since 2012.

He said: “What is in the past is in the past. I am not thinking about having a successful exit.

“The ambition is to go as far as possible [in the World Cup]/ I am not nostalgic.

“The most important thing is to keep the France national team at the highest level.”

And while the president of France’s Football federation has admitted he knows who will take over from Didier, though he hasn’t made their identity public, the current boss doesn’t want to get drawn into any discussion on the subject.

He said: “I am not in the habit of commenting on the president’s comments.

“I spend enough time with him to talk to him.

“I am focused on what is important to me.

“Today, tomorrow… you can write your topics but I won’t worry about it.”