withdrawal from Les Bleus after the controversy with Deschamps- Corriere.it

After the injury that kept him out of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar which has just finished with the defeat of Les Bleus in Argentina-France, the longed-for final, the lightning recovery attempt, the controversies with coach Didier Deschamps who did not reinstate him for the last match and, above all, the registry office – he turns 35 today, December 19th – push Karim Benzema, fresh Ballon d’Or, to say adieu to the national team. With a post on Instagram and other social media, the attacker explains: «I made the efforts and the mistakes it took to get to where I am today and I’m proud of it. I wrote my story, and ours ends #Nueve».

Benzema with Les Bleus has collected 97 appearances with 37 goals since 2007. The attacker was embittered not so much because of the pain he suffered on the eve of the World Cup in the quadriceps of his left thigh, in a different area from the one previously injured, but because he would have liked to stay in Qatar and be treated with the national team. The Real Madrid striker had instead been sent home, in the face of a long-term diagnosis of his absence. Instead, already at the end of November he seemed to have disposed of everything, and he hoped to be reconsidered starting from the round of 16, given that he had not been eliminated from the squad.

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