Exciting details have been revealed from within the French international camp, particularly on the ambiguity surrounding the story of Karim Benzema, who announced his international retirement on Monday, while media reports revealed that captain Hugo Lloris and striker Antoine Griezmann were the reason for denying the Real Madrid player who played in the last World Cup, before the announcement 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 a muscle injury in his left thigh, and that he had been excluded from the World Cup squad without calling up any substitutes.
And media reports that appeared during the World Cup confirmed that the French striker’s injury wasn’t serious 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 Ball gold last Thursday in a friendly match between Real Madrid and Leganes.
French investigative journalist Romain Molina published a video on Monday evening in which he claimed Benzema’s exclusion from the final list was not due to injury but rather because some players did not want him to return to the national team, notably captain Hugo Lloris and Antoine Griezmann, as they consider his presence a threat to their leadership roles in the national team.
Benzema declined French President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to attend the World Cup final between Argentina and France, before posting on his Instagram page, “I don’t care.” Then, on Monday, he announced his retirement from the game with the rooster slogan when he was 35, and after France missed out on winning 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 called up to the 2020 European Cup, especially since it was the first major tournament he has played in a long time, and consider him a new element in the dressing room. players who won the 2018 World Cup.
