The World Cup is still kicking in France, in Deschamps and in Karim Benzema, the Real Madrid striker, who is fed up with people talking about what happened to him there and which, according to him, does not conform to the truth. You really wanted to be important with the French team and he went home before the tournament started. What happened between the day he retired injured and his return to Spain is a mystery.
Deschamps has given his version and what he has said has made the French striker very angry. For Deschamps, who has spoken in Le Parisien, “there is only one truth and Karim knows it. good”, says. “He joined on November 14 after a period of semi-inactivity at his club. He followed an individualized program and his return to group training was postponed. He did not have, like Raphaël Varane, options to start 100% in the first game against Australia”, he continues about his arrival.
And what happened next: “When Karim was injured, our doctor took him to the Aspetar clinic to do an MRI. Karim sent the results to a doctor in Madrid, who also gave him his opinion. When he returned to the hotel, already It was after midnight. I met Karim in his room and our doctor, who had come to give me the MRI report.”
And there the drama begins: “I lost an important player and he was upset. Our doctor’s diagnosis coincided with that of Madrid. ‘He is dead’, he told me. In the best of cases, his return to training could not come before December 10. In a statement on his social network, he expressed his disappointment at having to give up, but justified this choice in his concern for thinking about the team. We were together for about twenty minutes. When he leaves him, I tell him: ‘Karim, there is no rush.’ You organize your return with the team manager. When I wake up, I realize it’s gone. It’s her decision, I understand and respect it”.
But Benzema returned to training earlier: “He played thirty minutes of a training match. Do you really think that’s comparable to the intensity of a World Cup semi-final? Despite his talent and status, which has never been challenged by anyone, can you imagine him coming back at the last moment? Karim himself told me that he would not have been ready, ”explains Deschamps, who assures that the atmosphere with him was always good:“ No player was happy with his departure, as was heard or could be read. Karim knows it too. I don’t know who spreads those rumors. It’s not even controversy anymore, it’s malice. If the smiles appeared, it was not because Karim had left us, but because the team was winning”.
That is the long version of Deschamps, with which Benzema has made it clear that he does not agree at all.
He has answered in two stories on Instagram, with two very clear sentences: “But how daring” and “Dear Didier, good night”, but above all it is the emoticon that accompanies the two response phrases: the face of a clown
