While the French could come to support the France team this Sunday, a new tension would have erupted between KB9 and Didier Deschamps.
Simple rumor or real information? As the French team prepares for the World Cup final against Argentina this Sunday, December 18, the name of Karim Benzema has been coming up insistently for several hours and a new conflict with Didier Deschamps resurfaces. Injured and forfeited before the start of the competition, the Frenchman is still on the coach’s list with Fifa and could, in theory, be crowned world champion in the event of a victory for the Blues.
According to certain information from the Spanish media, the Ballon d’Or 2022, who has returned to the field with Real, has received authorization from his club to come and support the Blues in Qatar. According to some rumors, Emmanuel Macron, present at the stadium, also wants to bring in the injured players and therefore Karim Benzema. But questioned at a press conference, Didier Deschamps curtly brushed off the question “Pfff … I prefer not even to answer you. Come on, next question.”
Report revealed Thursday, December 15 that the center-forward had been upset by the lack of interest of the FFF in his regard and by the statements of Didier Deschamps concerning him. L’Equipe also explain that the relationship between Deschamps and Benzema has never been ‘complicit’ and never will be. Didier Deschamps would also have been upset with his player, who had not thanked him during his speech when he presented his Ballon d’Or.
Didier Deschamps made his disappointment known in the wake of the package announcement. “I am extremely sad for Karim who had made this World Cup a major objective. Despite this new blow for the French team, I have full confidence in my group. We will do everything to meet the immense challenge which awaits us”, he underlines in the press release from the FFF. A few minutes later, Karim Benzema spoke in turn via a message on his Instagram account. “In my life, I have never given up, but tonight I have to think about the team as I always have, so reason tells me to give up my place to someone who can help our group to have a great World Cup. Thank you for all your messages of support”.
Saturday evening November 19, The newspaper The Team evoked “a sharp muscle pain in the left quadriceps”. The examinations taken in the evening at the premises of the Aspetar medical facility in Doha confirmed an unequivocal verdict: “a lesion of the femoral rectus, which will require a recovery period of three weeks” according to the press release from the federation. It was too much to participate in the group stage of the World Cup and even hypothetically in a large part of the possible knockout matches if the Blues qualified. What to ratify in the wake of a package. Karim Benzema is thus deprived of a second World Cup, he who had not participated in the 2010 World Cup and the Knysna scandal, had reached the quarter-finals with the Blues in 2014 in Brazil before being dismissed for Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup.
Interviewed on the show Telefoot, Sunday, November 20, Didier Deschamps explained how Karim Benzema was injured. “It wasn’t in the opposition, it was in the game, he had played games before. Everything was under control, he was taking another step, as was the case with Varane. It wasn’t not even on an acceleration, a strike.” The coach then added that injuries could happen in training, that it was not a relapse. “It’s a big blow, of course. Karim had done everything. He was in session and with an almost innocuous gesture… here it is, it’s the other leg and in front while it was the ischio on the other”, detailed Didier Deschamps.
If the medical verdict dismisses the thesis of the relapse of a hamstring injury that Karim Benzema has been dragging for more than a month, he who had hardly played in competition with his club of real Madrid for more than a month, the injury of the French striker will raise many questions. Was it imperative to accelerate his return for participation in the first match against Australia on Tuesday? While the training of the French team on Saturday evening in Doha, three days before the entry into the running of the Blues on Tuesday against Australia, was to mark a rise in power with the highly anticipated return of Karim Benzema and Raphaël Varane in collective training, after several days away marked by care and exercises aimed at getting them back on their feet and reassuring them before the first match, this trial run finally turned into a disaster. According to RMC Sport, the former Lyonnais was not injured in a shock or contact with a partner, but following a race, immediately feeling “sharp pain” in his left leg.