The Ballon d’Or 2022 will no doubt no longer wear the blue tunic. “I made the effort and the mistakes it took to be where I am today and I’m proud of it! I have written my story and ours is ending”, published Karim Benzema on several social networks, accompanying his message with a photo of him with the France team. Injured and absent from the last World Cup, the Real Madrid striker suggests that he is ending his international career.
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First French crowned best player in the world since Zinedine Zidane, the native of Lyon will have worn the blue jersey 97 times, for 37 goals (fifth best scorer with the tricolors). Excluded by coach Didier Deschamps from the national team for almost six years, after his involvement in a “sextape” blackmail case against his teammate Mathieu Valbuena, for which he was given a one-year suspended prison sentence, the five-time Champions League winner with Real Madrid returned to the Blues in 2021.
Since his return, the “Nueve” will have scored a single small line on his international record, winner in 2021 of the very modest League of Nations. Selected this year for the World Cup in Qatar, he did not play a single minute in the competition, forced to withdraw through injury.
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