others. On the French national team, his primary focus was putting the ball at the feet of the spectacularly gifted goal-scoring midfielder Zinedine Zidane. “For every ten balls that I played, I gave nine to him,” Deschamps said. Though he wasn’t familiar with the writings of Harvard’s Richard Hackman, Deschamps’s approach to leadership was as functional as it gets. On a team, he said, “you can’t only have architects. You also need bricklayers.”
