Karim Benzema cleared for France return, confirms World Cup stance

Karim Ben­ze­ma will not trav­el to Qatar for France’s World Cup final against Argenti­na, accord­ing to the lat­est reports.

The world cham­pi­ons beat Moroc­co 2–0 in the semi-finals to advance to the final for the sec­ond year in a row. Les Bleus will face Lionel Mes­si’s Argenti­na in the final.

Despite coach Didi­er Deschamps miss­ing some key play­ers, Les Bleus reached the final once again. Paul Pog­ba, Pres­nel Kim­pem­be, Christo­pher Nkunku and N’Go­lo Kante were all out, and Ben­ze­ma injured his thigh the day before the tournament.

How­ev­er, unlike oth­er injured play­ers, the Real Madrid star remained in the French squad, although he returned to the Span­ish cap­i­tal to con­tin­ue his reha­bil­i­ta­tion. Ben­ze­ma, 34, has three weeks to recov­er and, with no replace­ments, could make a sen­sa­tion­al comeback.

Ben­ze­ma has already trained with his club and the Euro­pean cham­pi­ons have giv­en him per­mis­sion to return to the Per­sian Gulf coun­try, Mun­do Deporti­vo reports. How­ev­er, Lele­vo now claims that the play­er him­self has denied any form of atten­dance at the Rus­sell sta­di­um on Sunday.

Ben­ze­ma will receive a win­ner’s medal if France lifts the tro­phy for the third time, but he is unlike­ly to pick it up in per­son. Deschamps is also dis­ap­point­ed by the strik­er’s reluc­tance to reunite, accord­ing to the Span­ish newspaper.

Asked about the chances of him mak­ing it to the semi-finals, the France coach told reporters: “I’m deal­ing with 24 play­ers here,” adding: “Play­ers who aren’t here, like Kim­pem­be. I don’t treat Pog­ba in the same way.

But “I hon­est­ly don’t want to answer that ques­tion,” he replied blunt­ly. Next ques­tion. I am ter­ri­bly sorry.

Ben­ze­ma has post­ed con­grat­u­la­to­ry mes­sages to his team­mates through­out the tour­na­ment and Auerlen Chua­meni has revealed that he is in con­tact with his team­mates in Madrid.

Despite his open dia­logue with his play­ers, Deschamps’ cold­ness in par­tic­u­lar has plagued him. Ben­ze­ma also under­stands that arriv­ing in Qatar for the World Cup finale would not make a good impres­sion, espe­cial­ly con­sid­er­ing his home coun­try was thriv­ing dur­ing his absence. .

The tur­moil over his posi­tion is the lat­est chap­ter in his tur­bu­lent rela­tion­ship with the Japan­ese nation­al team. In May 2021, he was called up to the Euro­pean Cham­pi­onships, end­ing six years of inter­na­tion­al wilderness.

The Bal­lon d’Or win­ner has not been involved in a major tour­na­ment in a long time, with France reach­ing the last three finals he has not played in. The only time Deschamps failed to reach at least the run­ners-up was in 2014 and 2021, when the Madrid for­ward was available.

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