Deschamps settles the Benzema case: “It’s a closed matter”

The French coach, Didier Deschampsavoided this Thursday referring to the criticism leveled against him by the Real striker Madrid Karim Benzema and assured that this player “is the past”.

“I have already recounted what happened (in the past world), is a closed matter, which belongs to the past. For me the important thing is the future, they are the two games that we have ahead of us with these 23 players”, said the coach during the presentation of his first squad list of the year.

Benzema He treated Deschamps as a “liar” and a “clown” through social networks, after the coach assured in an interview that the Real Madrid player voluntarily left the French concentration in Qatar after diagnosing an injury.

The striker, who promised explanations “for the people”, did not want to refer to the case last night after the Champions League match against Liverpool in which he got the pass to the quarterfinals.

“Nothing to say,” said the player when asked about the relationship with Deschamps. The footballer’s entourage has been letting it be understood that the player wanted to stay and that he could have played the last World Cup matches, but it was Deschamps who asked him to leave the concentration.

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