On Instagram, Patrice Evra sternly tackled the players of the French team regarding their attitude towards striker Karim Benzema. The former captain of the Blues deplores a lack of support from the tricolor group for the Ballon d’Or, chased after his injury which occurred before the start of the last World Cup.
Evra had things to say about the Benzema case.
Thirty days have passed since the end of the 2022 World Cup, and yet the departure of Karim Benzema from the French team through injury, just before the start of the tournament in Qatar, continues to make people talk.
Until then silent regarding the controversy, the sulphurous Patrice Evra has commented on this affair, by slipping a tackle supported by the tricolor players, more than by the staff of the Blues.
For Benzema, Evra wants the Blues …
In a video posted on Instagram, the ex-left side and captain of the France team took out the sulfateuse. On the human side, there is a small hiccup. I have to. (…) Karim, he arrives with his Ballon d’Or, he is very small. But from the outside, I have the impression that he disturbed a lot of people, deplores Evra. And you players, for not supporting him… we’re going to war for a player! Injury, medical report, according to the doctor of the France team, three weeks. Afterwards, he returns to Madrid, they tell him a week…
We are going to talk about the Di Maria case, who is injured throughout the World Cup. He plays the final and he scores against us. This is the coach’s responsibility. He makes choices. We told Karim to take his things. Afterwards, we always respect the coach’s decision. But you players, I think Didier always puts the team before a player. In taking this decision, he said to himself that yes, it is medical, but he also said to himself that you players, some were angry, jealous, because he was overshadowingfurther criticized the 41-year-old man, who had made Euro 2016 his last international competition.
… and compare them to the 1998 world champions
Concerning Benzema, Evra is therefore angry with the French, who, however, according to him, have had a very good career in Qatar. And the former Manchester United draws a parallel between this affair and the behavior of former world champions when he arrived in the tricolor group in 2004. You are making the same mistake as the 98 world champions who thought that the French team belonged to them. It belongs to everyone. You want to decide who comes, who has to come, no, you’re going to make the same mistake, you don’t need that. We have the Ballon d’Or in our team. If I was still there, we would even have waited for Karim before eating. I haven’t seen anyone fightclaimed Evra. A criticism probably addressed to his former competitor on the left flank of the defense of the national team, Bixente Lizarazu, whom Evra has never spared in the media.
Cited as one of the main detractors of Benzema in selection alongside executives like Antoine Griezmann or Paul Pogba by many French journalists, the now ex-keeper and captain of the Blues Hugo Lloris had dismantled such a rumor when announcing his international retreat last week. We would all have preferred that the Ballon d’Or, when we see what he has brought since his return, could be with usexplained the doorman of Tottenham, before being directly thanked by the relative of KB9, Karim Djaziri, for this clarification.
Evra’s latest video on Instagram
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