Deschamps upset at Blanc treatment

Marseille coach Didier Deschamps on Friday expressed support for former France team-mate Laurent Blanc, who is at the centre of the race row that has enveloped French football.
"I'm very sad for Laurent, for what's happening to him," said Deschamps at a press conference.
"We're attacking the man, not the national coach or the educator.”
Blanc, currently on holiday in Italy, is under investigation after allegedly expressing support for a quota on the number of dual-nationality players at France's youth training centres.
"Laurent Blanc is there and I hope that he'll stay as long as possible," said Deschamps, who was Blanc's captain when France won the 1998 World Cup.
"There is not the slightest ambiguity about that."
He went on: "There are two enquiries that are under way (one by the French Football Federation, one by the French sports ministry).
"They're there to provide responses and to determine the degrees of responsibility of the different protagonists."
Several of France's 1998 World Cup winners, including Lilian Thuram and Christophe Dugarry, have spoken out about the affair and Deschamps said that each of them had "the right to express themselves, or to keep quiet".