bet lost for Deschamps, Karim Benzema has already left Qatar – Liberation

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2022 World Cup in Qatardossier

Against all logic, the French coach had bet on his star striker while he was still recovering from an injury. The Ballon d’Or has relapsed, darkening the horizon of the Blues a little more.

Blues striker Karim Benzema took Qatar Airways flight QR149 this Sunday, which took off at 8:08 a.m. local time, heading to Adolfo-Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport where he should land in the early afternoon. Saturday, during the very first collective training to which he was invited since he had been suffering from his right thigh for two good months with a relapse which had permanently removed him from the field, the Real star had been hit in the quadriceps of the left thigh after a run during an opposition, the first time he had faced a game situation in weeks. The MRI taken in a hospital in Doha in the process recorded an unavailability of at least three weeks.

“I am extremely sad for Karim who made this World Cup a major goal. Despite this new blow for the French team, I have full confidence in my group. We will do everything to meet the immense challenge that awaits us,” reacted the tricolor coach, Didier Deschamps, by press release. “In my life, I never gave up, said the Blues striker on Instagram. But tonight, I have to think about the team as I always have, so reason tells me to leave my place to someone who could help our group have a good World Cup.

Ability to play his team and raise his own statistics

A particularly hard outcome for the player, deprived of the France team between 2015 and 2021 because of involvement – ​​he was later convicted – in the sextape blackmail case targeting his teammate in the France team Mathieu Valbuena, and who thus missed the great hours of the Deschamps mandate, from the final of Euro 2016 organized in France until the Russian coronation of 2018.

Bron’s child arrived in full swing in Qatar: in October he was awarded the Ballon d’Or, just reward for a fifth victory in the Champions League with his club Real Madrid in the spring, devoting a very particular mix of ability to play his team and increase his own statistics (goals and assists) in proportion. An extremely rare potion, not to say unique, in contemporary ultra-individual football.

“A special case”

Still, his presence in Qatar already raised questions with regard to a golden rule that you never take an injured player to a final phase of competition. Benzema having never played more than twenty-six minutes of play since October 19, the toxicity of the player in question being precisely proportional to his brilliance since everyone – starting with the media environment – ​​is focusing on a possible return.

Afterwards, as Rabiot explained on Friday: “Karim is a special case.” And Deschamps gave it a shot. He will also be able to argue that the injury which definitively ruled out the player from the Qatari World Cup is not the same, according to the federal communication, as the one he had been dragging for weeks. He lost his bet however. The coach has until Monday to digitally replace Benzema in the group of globalists.

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