A little less than a week after the announcement of the great return of Karim Benzema to the French team, Didier Deschamps spoke again about the reasons which led him to recall the Madrilenian, five years after his last selection.
Finally, so to speak, since the coach, faithful to his line of conduct in this matter, explained that he would not reveal the details of his discussions with KB9.
“But it was very, very long, there were a lot of exchanges,” he simply said.
"Things have changed", assures Deschamps
Invited to return to the reason for the absence of Benzema in the selection, Deschamps first judged that he did not see today the interest to return on [what has happened for] five years ", Before finally showing a little more talkative, especially after the words of Benz in
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:" You want me to talk about unpleasant things ... There is a word: racist. Since that day, I haven't been the same. I don't see it the same way, I got disconnected from everything. It was very violent. Things have changed. Me, and certainly Karim's side too, of course. "
DD also did not wish to reveal which of him or the Real striker had taken the first step towards reconciliation.
“It doesn't matter to me that.
I'm not going to tell you when, how, was it feasible and achievable before.
If this has not happened before, it is because the conditions were not met.
There, they were reunited and if I made this decision today, you can imagine that it is because it went very well.
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