Almost a month after Karim Benzema’s withdrawal from the World Cup, the French team’s entourage is giving its version of a soap opera that continues to generate a lot of ink.
Deschamps and Benzema, a complicated story…
The 2022 World Cup has been over for three weeks, but the management in the French team of the case of Karim Benzema, package for this competition due to a thigh injury, is still talking. The day after the revelations of Daniel Riolo (read here), the entourage of the tricolor selection wanted to give their point of view to RMC.
Benzema’s departure
The French team first returns to November 19, when the Real Madrid striker was announced forfeited for the World Cup. If several sources have mentioned a hasty departure by the medical staff of the Blues, the entourage of the selection explains that it is the 35-year-old player who decided to leave Qatar as quickly as possible to return to Spain, while he he had been offered to stay longer at base camp to greet his teammates.
According to the entourage of the selection, Benzema therefore wanted to return to Europe just after learning of his package. Problem, it was forbidden for private flights to fly over Iraq and / or Ukraine at night. The staff of the Blues as well as the personal assistant of KB9 therefore worked part of the night to organize his departure. The Madrilne is then directed to the first regular flight the next morning.
Before leaving, the Ballon d’Or would still have asked the director of security of the Blues, Mohamed Sanhadji, if it was possible to greet the other players to say goodbye and support them for the rest of the competition. We weren’t going to wake up all the players at 5 a.m. to make a guard of honor Benzema slips a close friend of the Habs.
The vagueness around his wound
If the entourage of the France team gives its version of the departure of Benzema, it also tries to dispel the vagueness around his injury. The Blues assure that the diagnosis made by the doctor was correct and that it was impossible to say that the player could have played the quarter-final against England on December 10, even if he played five days more. late with Real. It is also explained that, contrary to what Riolo announced, it was the Merengue who decided himself to accelerate his races the day he was injured.
On the side of the selection, we recognize a real vagueness around the state of health of the player. On the one hand because Real Madrid did not provide any medical records, unlike Manchester United who fully collaborated with the Blues to manage Raphal Varane’s injury. But also because Benzema initially refused to train and wanted treat . All this contributed to instill doubt in the minds of the medical staff regarding the real physical condition of the Madrid player. Like the fact that the latter never responded to a request made on November 12 by the French team, which offered to send him a member of the medical team for treatment.
The management of Deschamps
In short, the communication between the selection, the player and his club has never been fluid. And the entourage of the France team regrets that Benzema has been presented as the victim since the start of the controversy and that the management of Deschamps is criticized. He also recalls that the coach made a strong speech about the player in front of the president of the FFF, the Minister of Sports and around fifty people from Clairefontaine at the start of the rally, stating that it’s a great chance for France to have Karim Benzema .
Regarding the tensions between KB9 and certain executives of the Blues, those close to the French selection sweep away a supposed Pogba-Benzema rivalry and recall that Deschamps knows how to perfectly manage egos in a locker room to avoid this type of problem. This development allows at least to obtain the point of view of the French team on the Benzema case, without however providing concrete proof. Everyone will therefore have their own opinion on the matter.
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