France coach Laurent Blanc has vowed to quit if France fails to qualify for the 2012 European Championship.Blanc, who took over from the unpopular Raymond Domenech after France’s World Cup debacle, would step down despite having signed a two-year contract.
“It’s Euro 2012 or I’m going,” Blanc said in an interview with sports daily L’Equipe Wednesday. “I will be judged on results. It’s not my thing to keep going when I’ve failed.”
Blanc’s contract would normally take him well past France’s last qualifier against Bosnia-Herzegovina in October 2011 and any playoff matches a month later. But Blanc is adamant he will not be like his predecessor.