French record scorer Giroud is disappointed with the situation surrounding Karim Benzema. On Sunday, it trickled through that the stopped striker will pass up his farewell as an international.
Olympic Games applicant Giroud is disappointed for Benzema: “It’s a pity to end up like this”
Benzema missed the last World Cup in Qatar due to an injury and announced shortly afterwards that he would no longer play for France. “It’s a pity it has to end like this,” Giroud told Europe 1. “It’s his choice. We can’t put ourselves in his position.”
“Because of everything he’s done for the French team, at his club, in his career, I would have preferred him to stop in a good way,” the AC Milan striker added of his retired fellow striker, who was 37 years old. times scored in 97 international matches. “He was an important player for us. We all want to determine our own farewell, in the best possible way. He must have felt that he no longer wanted to and his story was over.”
Benzema was at odds with national coach Didier Deschamps several times. Benzema recently accused the French coach of lying via Instagram: “Liar! Yes you, liar. You’re a great liar!” Those messages followed Deschamps’s explanation about the absence of Benzema at the World Cup. Deschamps claimed that Benzema ultimately chose to leave.
Olympic Games
Giroud (36) also announced during the press talk that he would be interested in playing for his country at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. “I hadn’t thought of it at first. It would be great. That was still missing on my list,” he said.
Final miss still haunts Muani: “I will never forget it”
In other France national team news, Randal Kolo Muani often thinks back to the moment when he could have shot France to its third World Cup title in history.
It did not come to that, because the striker found Emiliano Martínez on his way in extra time. Three months later, the 24-year-old season revelation of Eintracht Frankfurt looks back at that moment. “It could have changed my life,” Muani tells L’Équipe. “I would have liked to have kicked the ball into the net like all the other Frenchmen, but it happened and these are the vagaries of life.”
“I want to continue, but it’s part of the job,” Muani continues. “It’s not that I’m sad. I’ll just never forget it. We were so close to bringing home the third star. I’m not gonna lie. I hate it.”
The former Nantes attacker will face the Netherlands with France on Friday. Muani can then play his sixth international match. He scored once for his country, in the 2-0 victory over Morocco in Qatar. He could make a top transfer after this season.
