According to some rumours, Karim Benzema’s withdrawal before the 2022 World Cup would have delighted players from the France team, including Hugo Lloris. The former goalkeeper of the Blues gave his version in an interview with L’Equipe.
Benzema and Lloris after the coronation of the Blues in the League of Nations
What really happened when Karim Benzema left the France team ahead of the 2022 World Cup? At a time when each side is passing the buck regarding the injury of the Real Madrid striker and the decision to send him home quickly, Hugo Lloris returned to another controversy concerning the supposed bad relations between the Ballon d’Or 2022 and several executives of the Blues.
Lloris denounces lies
What we players have experienced with his departure is this: you train in the evening, he gets injured, you go to bed, and the next day when you get up you are told that Karim has left. Everything happened so quickly… It was presented as a medical package, and we, the players, discovered it in the morning, at a time when something was happening almost every day. says the one who has just announced his international retirement (read here), before going back to the rumors of a group delighted with the Madrid package.
There are many things that have been said, and which are either misleading or ridiculous: the atmosphere was very good before his departure, and very good after, and it was very normally amplified thanks to our journey and the euphoria , underlines the record holder of the selections with the Blues (145). But we would all have preferred that the Ballon d’Or, when we see what he has brought since his return, could be with us. This is still a major plus!
H.Lloris – what are we accused of?
For Lloris, the rumor concerning a dismissal of KB9 favored by several executives of the tricolor selection does not hold water. To say that we would have pushed for him to leave is completely false, and I don’t see where we’re coming from: he was essential for eighteen months, he helped us win the League of Nations, his feedback will only be positive. It’s really dishonest to claim that some of us were able to help him go. annoys the former Lyonnais.
We would have done it when, how? When you approach a World Cup, you want to do it with your best players. What are we being blamed for? To have been able to reinvent ourselves after his departure? But we did it after each withdrawal, after each departure, after that of Lucas Hernandez (injured in the first match against Australia, 4-1) as after that of Karim. We adapted to all the circumstances, and we were strong , concludes the Spur. Would the Blues have been stronger with Benzema? No one will ever know.
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