Benzema back from the brink!
Updated On: 17 November, 2022 07:32 AM IST | Paris | AP
Eight years after last featuring in a World Cup match following which he was ostracised over a sex tape scandal, France’s in-form Ballon d’Or-winning star striker eyes redemption at Qatar 2022
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France’s Karim Benzema trains with the national team in Clairfontaine recently. Pic/Getty Images
When Karim Benzema held up the Ballon d’Or award last month, the crowd in the Parisian theatre rose to applaud him. Now he hopes to lift France fans out of their seats at the FIFA World Cup.
That crowded theatre seemed a fitting location for Benzema’s crowning moment of personal glory, considering he was once the symbol of national disapproval—long rejected and maligned by the French public following a sex tape scandal. It led to a long exclusion from the national team until his recall last year.
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