“Why not”: Benzema opens the door wide for the Paris 2024 Olympics

One more candidate for the Paris Olympics. And not the least... Like the other coaches who will officiate at the Olympic Games next summer, Thierry Henry will be entitled to three players over 23 years old to compete in the tournament. Kylian Mbappé is obviously a candidate, we know, even if Real Madrid – his probable future club – is, a priori, not keen to let him do so. Antoine Griezmann is up for it too, and he still believes in it according to our information. In fact, it would be too long to list the list of contenders, players who should continue after Euro 2024 in Germany this summer or others, who recently hung up the selection, Hugo Lloris or Raphaël Varane. Here's one more with Karim Benzema, according to comments reported on the set of L'Equipe du Soir this Tuesday.

Journalist Virginie Sainsily, who assures “exchange from time to time” with the 2022 Ballon d’or, asked him the question directly. She reports this response in this Tuesday evening’s show: “Why not, of course, it could be great.” Under contract at Al-Ittihad, in Saudi Arabia, where he left last summer after turning his back on Real, Benzema would have immediately clarified that the decision will fall to the coach, Thierry Henry. But it apparently opens up the idea of ​​participation wide. It remains to be seen whether his former teammate in the French team will be sensitive to this call...

Trained at OL before his heyday at Real Madrid, Karim Benzema, 36, wore the France A team jersey 97 times, scoring 37 goals. His history in Blue has never been a long, quiet river. Contrary to popular belief, he did not participate in the 2010 World Cup. However, he was ostracized by Didier Deschamps for many years after statements in the press. The two men put water in their wine, allowing Benzema's return for the Euro (elimination in the round of 16) and victory in the 2021 Nations League. And there was this imbroglio around his injury ahead of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Declared forfeited from the competition, he then announced his international retirement. To better return through the back door during the Paris Olympic Games?