Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Five years after the sexstep scandal
France apologize to star striker Benzema

The career of Karim Benzema on the French national football team began. In 2015, the Real Madrid striker was lined up for being complicit in a threatening scandal. The now 33-year-old is a big surprise among German group opponents.

Striker Karim Benzema returns to the French national football team after five and a half years. The 33-year-old from Real Madrid has been named in coach Didier Deshchamps’ starting list for the World Championships for the European Championships this summer (June 11 to July 11), with a 26-man squad announced on Tuesday evening.

Benzema was no longer part of the Equip Triangle from a blackmail scandal involving a sexstep in October 2015, the Pan-European EM. In he is now set to score with superstar Kylian Mbabane (Paris Saint-Germain) and Antoine Griezmann (FC Barcelona). . From Bundesliga, Bayern Quartet include Lucas Hernandez, Benjamin Bouard, Corinthian Tolisso and Kingsley Common, including Marcus Durham of Portugal. On the other hand, Diod Upamekano is missing, he said in the summer R.P. He will switch from Leipzig to FC Bayern.

“Meet and discuss in detail”

Benzema’s visit appeared unlikely for many years because the legal process was not yet complete: Benzema would have to answer to court next fall, and the trial is set to take place in October. It is complicit in trying to extort money. Former international teammate Matthew Valpuna has reportedly been forced 81 times to pay a third party for threatening to release an intimate video.

After not being considered for the 2016 European Championships, coach Deshchamps publicly complained that he “bowed to the pressure of a racist part of France.” Before the 2018 World Cup, Benzema said he had no chance of returning under this coach.

Descombs has now insisted that the interests of the national team are “above all else”. “Some steps” are necessary to come to this conclusion: “We met and discussed in detail.” Benzema has scored 27 goals in 81 international appearances so far and has scored 29 times for Real Madrid this season alone. France will play Germany at the start of the European Championships in Munich on June 15, while other opponents in Group F are Hungary and defending champions Portugal.