The return of Karim Benzema to the France team, five years after his sidelining, is "an excellent decision", greeted Tuesday the president of the French Federation Noël Le Graët, who wants to believe that the center forward will bring "His talent" at the Euro this summer.
“If the return to the group of Karim Benzema may have surprised some, he is delighted.
I think it's an excellent decision, given his talent and his remarkable performance over the past few months, ”said the leader in a statement posted on the FFF website.
"The adventure in Blue is over", he said in 2019 about Benzema
Le Graët, who has often expressed his affection for Benzema, announced in 2015 that the attacker was "no longer selectable" after his indictment in the case of blackmail with sextape exerted on Mathieu Valbuena.
The center forward missed Euro 2016 at home, then the 2018 World Cup, won by the Blues in Russia.
The Breton leader even seemed to have definitively closed the door in November 2019 by declaring that “the adventure in Blue (was) over” for Benzema, who had then responded strongly on social networks.
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