• Karim Benzema could be part of the list of 26 players selected by Didier Deschamps to compete in Euro 2021.

  • The Real Madrid striker, whose counter has been blocked at 81 selections since the fall of 2015, had given up on the France team as long as DD would be coach.

  • His summons, promising in sporting terms, would be the ultimate proof that Deschamps places the interests of the Blues above all else.

So there Didier, you stop us a corner.

Moreover, we still refuse to believe it before seeing Gilles Bouleau this evening.

Why, how, who, what, but-where-is-so-or-ni-car, questions are turbulent in our overheated little brain.

Not even a month ago, in a sort of editorial to strengthen our canteen heroism, we regretted one last time that the name of Benzema was absent from the debate as we erase the dissidents from the official memory of the regime, little by little , by pushing the plug until never again mentioning it on the official accounts of the FFF and the France team.

And here is not that the guy returns from the devil vauvert-rouge-bleu, according to our colleagues from the Parisian, confirming a pleasant little music that has been floating around since the day before.

Defended then released just before the Euro

It was not for lack of having learned to cultivate our art of resignation. Tired of war, no one dared to ask the question at a press conference, apart from a few foreign colleagues kindly sent back to their homes with a verbal pirouette. Six years that Deschamps, reinforced by his sporting success, refused to grant an explanation for the recurring absence of one of the four or five best strikers in the world.

Notice he never said openly that he wouldn't call him back. Three months before Euro 2016, while the sextape affair had poisoned the life of the French group since the fall, Deschamps still promised to go on a crusade with his attacking leader. “Everyone envies us,” he said. To finally rule it out at the last moment, the FFF taking the pretext off of a fuzzy situation because the player was then placed under judicial control. Then came the famous interview on the "racist part of France", a kind of scarecrow that has been brandished since as the ultimate barrier of a return of the former Lyonnais in selection.

Deschamps has explained a thousand times the episode of the racist tag on his vacation home, and the Basque being resentful, we ended up saying that the limit of decency had been crossed that day in the mind of the coach.

It is, however, an a posteriori mental reconstruction.

During the Euro, 90% of supporters and followers of the Blues - we were - were absolutely convinced that the penance was going to stop as of the start of September.

It is then, by dint of seeing Benzema ostracized ad infinitum, that this explanation of the interview too much has imposed itself in the public debate.

Our hot debrief with Marca's journalist at the helm of this interview, dispatched in 20 minutes to a small airport in the Lyon suburbs, however qualified the idea of ​​a flamethrower trip.

Later, the success of the Russian campaign had its importance in the fatalistic reading of a definitive rupture, obviously, even if Giroud's indecipherable haters remind us every morning that it had not been done to crash once. in seven games.

Hence the immense surprise of this unexpected recall on the eve of Euro 2021, if it were to be confirmed.

Benzema never took a step towards the manager, sometimes making his case worse in interviews where he felt he had nothing to be ashamed of in the whole affair.

The latter had not opened the door further.

The sporting panorama has not really changed either: KB9 has been carrying Real on its shoulders for three years in vain (29 goals again this season), and the France team does not suffer precisely from an absence of offensive talents to his position.

Mbappé-Benzema-Griezmann, yum yum

So what ?

So the desire is to be at tonight, now, right away, to hear from DD's mouth the reasons for this cliffhanger of god's fire.

Then to arrive at June 10, now, immediately, with this attacking trio Mbappé-Girezmann-Benzema to populate the dreams of our summer nights, it being understood that we do not recall a Benzema to make him pick up the chasubles at Clairefontaine.

Although Deschamps can always go into the zag with the Olivier Giroud totem under his arm, and Karim on the bench if necessary.

We take anyway.

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