"Thank you, Didier!"
Do not pinch yourself, Karim Benzema is back in the France team and does not even hesitate to publicly thank the coach of the Blues. Another time, other manners ... Affair of the sextape or clumsy sentences
("Didier Deschamps gave in to a racist part of France")
had kept the two men away. The sequence, unimaginable a few months ago, nevertheless took place on Sunday in the bucolic setting of Clairefontaine, confirming the great media return of the former outcast. Banned from the selection for nearly six years - his last match was in October 2015 - the Real Madrid striker answered all the questions for twenty minutes, while leaving some gray areas on certain points. And not the least.
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Close to Griezmann, sharp and silent: how Benzema found the Blues
Karim Benzema was there to explain himself - a little -, to testify
"(his) joy and (his) pride to be there"
- a lot - but, for the rest, no desire to go back to the past.
Make way for the future, i.e. the Euro and the shock against Germany
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