Exciting details were revealed from within the French national team camp, specifically about the ambiguity surrounding the story of Karim Benzema, who announced his international retirement on Monday, as media reports revealed that captain Hugo Lloris and striker Antoine Griezmann were the reason for denying the Real Madrid player from playing the last World Cup. Before announcing he took off his country’s national team shirt forever.
And the French national team announced on the eve of the start of the 2022 World Cup that Benzema had suffered an injury to the left thigh muscles, and that he was excluded from the World Cup list without calling any substitute player.
And media reports appeared during the World Cup confirming that the French striker’s injury was not significant enough to rule him out, as he was able to participate in the final price, and what confirmed those conversations was the participation of the Golden Ball winner last Thursday in a friendly match for Real Madrid against Leganes.
On Monday evening, French investigative reporter Romain Molina published a video clip in which he said that Benzema’s exclusion from the final list was not due to injury, but rather because a number of players did not want him to return to the national team, most notably captain Hugo Lloris and Antoine Griezmann, as they consider his presence a threat to their leadership roles in the national team. the team.
Benzema refused French President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to attend the World Cup final between Argentina and France, before writing a post on his Instagram page, “I am not interested.” Then, on Monday, he announced his retirement from playing with the roosters’ slogan when he was 35 years old, and after France lost the chance to win the World Cup for the third time.
Molina concluded his speech by saying that the French Federation wanted to use Benzema as a scapegoat when he was summoned to the European Cup 2020, especially since it was the first major tournament he had played in a long time, and to consider him a new element in the dressing room of the players who won the 2018 World Cup.