Karim Benzema suffered a muscle disease in his left leg and will not participate in the Qatar 2022 Championship

French striker Karim Benzema will be missed Qatar World Cup 2022 Due to a muscle injury he submitted during a training session on Saturday, three days after the French national team’s debut in the exhibition against. Australia.

a blow to the left quadriceps muscle, Karim Benzema. He is forced to give up participation in the World Cup.”

“The entire team shares Karim’s grief and wishes him a speedy recovery,” the French Federation wrote in a statement on social media.

Karim Benzema He felt severe muscle pain in his left leg, in a different area than the one that had been bothering him in recent weeks and which had caused him not to train with the rest of the team until now.

The 34-year-old Ballon d’Or player joined group training on Saturday for the first time, but after participating in several exercises in which coach Didier Deschamps included him in the first group, he was forced to leave the session. .

The team already had to contend with the losses of centre-backs Presnell Kimpembe It is the attacker Christopher Nkunkurespectively was replaced by Axel Desassi And Colo Mwani.

discount Benzema He will have more weight, due to the good performance he presented with the Golden Ball with the French national team, as he became an essential part of Deschamps’ team as an offensive partner with Kylian Mbappe.

The striker was not present at the World Cup in Russia, and Deschamps expelled him from the team after accusing him of complicity in extortion, a case that led to his imprisonment without serving.

After three and a half years of absence, the coach raised his veto right before the last European Nations Cup, where he began to reveal himself as an important figure in the team, in parallel with the impressive performances he signed with the team. Real Madrid.

It’s not the first disappointment that might happen Benzema At the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, when at the age of 22 he was one of the most promising strikers in France and was already at Real Madrid, he was left out of the group because he was not an undisputed regular starter for his club, despite the fact that he was not. He scored two goals in the classification stage.

The football player did not hide his bitterness. Four years later, already with Deschamps on the bench, he signed an impressive performance in Brazil, where he was an undisputed starter, scoring three goals in the group stage, but could not avoid being eliminated by Gaul in the quarter-finals against Germany, which kicked off. .

The following year, the extortion scandal broke out, which separated him from the team and left him outside the European Championship, which France played on its territory.

He returned in the middle of 2021, on the eve of the European Cup again, his third playing for France.

The main candidate to replace Benzema at eleven before Australia is a veteran Olivier Giroud36, who returned to the team after months of absence and who is two goals away from Thierry Henry’s equation as the best scorer in history. France.