News on November 20, Golden Globe winner Benzema parted injured at the last moment! The French team officially announced that striker Benzema was forced to withdraw from this World Cup due to a quadriceps injury in his left thigh and needed a three-week recovery period.
On November 19, Qatar local time, Benzema and Varane participated in the French team for the first time, after they both trained alone due to injuries.
According to French media RMC, Benzema retired injured during training, which is the first time he has participated in the national team training since the French team assembled.
Andrés Onrubia Ramos, a reporter for the newspaper As, said: "Benzema was too risky to participate in joint training, he limped to training, his condition was not even 60%, and he withdrew from training due to injury to see if he could play in the World Cup. ”
As a result, Benzema had problems with the quadriceps muscle in his left thigh during joint training, and then had an MRI at a local hospital in Doha, which unfortunately confirmed that the rectus femoris muscle injury required a recovery period of three or three weeks, so he retired from this World Cup.
France coach Deschamps said: "Benzema sees this World Cup as one of his main goals and I feel very sorry for him. ”
Benzema, 34, will turn 35 on December 19 and was supposed to be his last, after France won the World Cup last time without being included in the squad.
According to Squawka, Benzema is the first Ballon d'Or winner to miss that World Cup since 1978. The last was Denmark's Alan Simonsen, who won the Ballon d'Or in 1977 and missed the 1978 World Cup due to injury.
Benzema then posted on Instagram: "In my life, I never gave up, but tonight I have to think about the team, as I always do. Reason tells me that I have to leave my place to someone who can help France through a successful World Cup and thank you for all your care, blessings and support. ”
In this World Cup, the defending champion France has six important players who have missed the final list due to injury, Pogba, N'Golo Kante, Meignan, Kimpembe, Nkunku, who was injured in training, and now Benzema.
The first match of the French team in this World Cup will face Australia in the early morning of the 23rd Beijing time. At present, the French team has not decided whether to temporarily call up a player to replace Benzema.
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