On Monday, striker Karim Benzema posted on his Twitter account announcing the “end” of his career with the French national football team, the day after France lost to Argentina in the final match of the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
The owner of the Golden Ball for the best player in the world for the year 2022 wrote on his Twitter account, attached to his picture in the colors of the French national team: “I made the efforts and mistakes that I should have made to get to where I am today and I am proud of that! I wrote my story and our story has come to an end.”
It is noteworthy that Benzema, who reached the age of 35 on Monday, and is of Arab descent, was forced to withdraw from the World Cup in Qatar at the last moment before its start, after he injured his thigh in training just three days before the first match for the Blues against Australia.
This injury was just another chapter in Benzema’s turbulent history with the French national team. Despite his 97 international appearances for France, the former Lyon and Real Madrid striker has never shone in the blue.
Benzema won only one competition in his colors, which is the European Nations League in 2021, after he was excluded from the national team for a long time, from 2015 to 2021, due to his involvement in the sex tape of former international player Mathieu Valbuena.
He was given a one-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of €75,000 at first instance by the Versailles Criminal Court for his involvement in attempted extortion in a case dating back to 2015.
The football star returned to the ranks of the French national team, in a surprise to everyone, before the start of the European Cup 2021, which he ended with the exclusion from the final price against Switzerland.
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