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If Christophe Dugarry no longer has the pleasure of commentating on Didier Deschamps’ Blues matches, his M6 colleague Xavier Domergue returned to service during France-Italy on Friday.
Two months after commentating on the Euro 2024 final between Spain and England (2-1) in Berlin, Xavier Domergue and Christophe Dugarry were not on M6 for the return of the French team, Friday at the Parc des Princes, in the League of Nations. And for good reason, TF1 has all the TV rights for the Blues outside major competitions until 2028. To analyze on TV the team of his former captain Didier Deschamps, “Duga” will have to wait until the 2026 World Cup in North America. M6 has bought the next two World Cups at the expense of the front page.
In the meantime, Domergue and Dugarry work for two rival radio stations. The 98 world champion still intervenes in
Rothen ignites on RMC, twice a week, while the 42-year-old sports journalist works on RTL, another M6 Group media outlet, when he is not commentating on matches broadcast by M6. The son of Jean-François Domergue (winner of Euro 84) accompanied presenter Éric Silvestro on the RTL set on Friday evening, with Philippe Sanfourche and Nicolas Georgereau commentating the match live from the Parc des Princes.
Dugarry in the Champions League final?
A TV commentator by profession (he was at Eurosport and then at beIN Sports), Xavier Domergue plays more of a radio columnist. He thus participated in the season premiere of the show Let’s replay the matchpresented by Philippe Sanfourche on August 31, with Gilles Verdez, Bertrand Latour and Florian Gazan as other debaters. The Bordeaux player is not continuing this Sunday, the day after the defeat of the Blues against the Italians (1-3), since Philippe Sanfourche gives the floor to Dominique Sévérac, Sébastien Tarrago, Giovanni Castaldi and Bruno Constant.
To find Xavier Domergue on M6, you will have to look towards the next friendly matches of the French women’s team in October (the opponents have not yet been announced). The Domergue-Dugarry duo, which offers an alternative to the more measured pair formed by Grégoire Margotton and Bixente Lizarazu on TF1, is expected for the 2025 Champions League final. M6 has also acquired the TV rights to the outcome of the C1 in free-to-air for the next three years! It remains to be seen whether “Duga” will be the consultant.
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