Karim Benzema is part of the list of 26 players called by Didier Deschamps for the next European Championship. This happens after more than five and a half years of absence in the current world champion.
The striker played his last game with the French national team in autumn 2015 against Armenia (4-0). Then, the scandal of his alleged involvement in the blackmail of Mathieu Valbuena exploded.
On the first big date after this event, Benzema was left out of the Euro 2016, a fact that led him to affirm that Deschamps “had yielded to pressure from a racist part of France.”
But with Euro 2020 the punishment of Benzema will be put to an end. And the audience will be in the Euro 2020 to see it.
DT statements
Didier Deschamps explained that after meeting and speaking extensively with the Real Madrid starker he made the decision to summon him.
“I have decided to summon Karim Benzema because he will improve the French team. I have not summoned him to be on the bench,” said the coach.
Benzema returns and does it to try to take over the European throne after France won the last World Cup in Russia without him.
Benzema’s reaction
On his Twitter account, the French soccer player thanked the return to the French national team on his social networks.
“I am very proud of this return to the France team and of the trust, they have given me. Thanks to my family, my friends, to my club, to you … and to all those who have always supported me and given me strength on a day-to-day basis “.
Tellement fier de ce retour en équipe de France et de la confiance que l’on m’accorde. Merci à ma famille, mes amis, mon club, à vous… et à tous ceux qui m’ont toujours soutenu et me donnent de la force au quotidien ?? #AllezLesBleus #Euro2021 #Blessed #AlHamdullilah pic.twitter.com/b8PJj1BATm
— Karim Benzema (@Benzema) May 18, 2021
With their return, the France team becomes a very strong team in group F.
