Many supporters of the French football team learned the news when they woke up. The Ballon d’Or Karim Benzema is forfeited for the entire 2022 World Cup in Qatar with the France team, after a thigh injury suffered on Saturday evening in training. A major asset less for Didier Deschamps, who had to face many abandonments before the start of the competition.
For Alain Giresse, winner of Euro 1984 with the Blues and Europe 1 consultant for the World Cup in Qatar, the loss of the Real Madrid striker is worrying. “It’s worrying,” he says at the microphone of Lénaïg Monier.
One more injury “and not the least”
“Of course that’s a problem. It’s a series of injuries suffered by the France team, one more and not the least,” continues the former member of the famous “magic square” of the Blues. “It’s not the best thing that can happen for them, for the start and the rest of this World Cup”, adds the one who is now the coach of the Kosovo team.
Alain Giresse also underlines the missed appointment for Karim Benzema at the World Cup, he who returned “after years of scarcity”. “Of course, it’s difficult. These are situations that can happen. A last season like the one he had, where everything was successful for him, not the slightest physical problem, and there, unfortunately, a series of repeated injuries It’s not an easy situation but one that we have to face, and for him and for the team”, details the ex-French international.
“It creates discussions that are not pleasant”
For him, “the players cannot remain indifferent” to Karim Benzema’s package, which strangely recalls that of Zinédine Zidane in 2002, during a nightmarish edition of the World Cup for the Blues. “They are aware of what Karim Benzema represents, of what he can bring… For a World Cup, everything must be in place so that there is no problem”, adds- he, noting that in 2018, the year of the coronation for the Tricolores, “everything was working well for the French players”.
According to Alain Giresse, the various packages that have plagued the France team “create topics of discussion that are not the most pleasant. For a World Cup, mentally, you really have to be from the first day to the last in extreme concentration”, remarks the former European champion. “These are not the most pleasant things to live for a group”, supports Alain Giresse.
Source: Europe1
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