The return of Karim Benzema is first and foremost a sporting affair, insisted Didier Deschamps.
But, it is a fact, football is also a political object, the exacerbated mirror of an era, "
a summary, or a concentrate, of the world
", to use the phrase of the philosopher Robert Redeker.
In France, the national selection was in turn the expression of a dream unit - black-blanc-beur France, victorious in 1998, that of identity fractures in 2010 with the Knysna fiasco (Benzema was not part of the slingers team), that of reconciliation in 2018.
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The breathtaking effect of the surprise selection of center-forward Real Madrid for Euro 2021 is proof of this: Benzema is more than just a player, he is a symbol.
That of disenchantment between French people.
If the dark case of blackmail with the sextape, which will earn him to go to court in October, raises the question of his exemplary nature, it is above all his remarks on France that explain the rupture between the player
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