Soccer player Karim Benzema will miss the 2022 World Cup, the French Football Federation confirmed on Saturday evening.

The federation said in a statement that due to the injury of “the left thigh muscle, the Real Madrid striker is forced to withdraw from participating in the World Cup.”

on Saturday afternoon, The French press had already reported that Benzema And he had left the national team to train early and that he was away from the first match of the world champions, against Australia, next Tuesday, with the World Cup in jeopardy, which is now certain.

In the same vein, the federation clarified that the recent Ballon d’Or winner had an MRI scan on Saturday night and that the results indicated a rectus femoris injury and a three-week recovery period.

Karim Benzema was forced to cut group training due to pain in the quadriceps muscles in his left thigh. FThey underwent an MRI in a hospital in Doha, which unfortunately confirmed the presence of an injury to the rectum femoris, which will require a recovery period of three weeks, ”they point out.

The period in question, looking at the calendar, would indicate that Benzema would be ready around December 10, the date by which the competition would already be on its way to the semi-finals.

So far, no potential replacement has been announced for coach Didier Deschamps’ squad, who may make a fresh call-up until Monday.

This is not the first injury change for the 2022 World Cup in France’s squad, compared to the original squad. Randall Kolo Mwani has already been called up to replace Christopher Nkunkuwho learned in the last few hours that he had learned Serious injury Unconfirmed date of return.