Mathieu Valbuena and Karim Benzema, June 10, 2014 – David Vincent / AP / SIPA
This is a reaction that we were impatiently awaiting. She arrived a few days later, at the microphone of RMC. We are of course talking about the opinion of Mathieu Valbuena on the return to favor of Karim Benzema in the France team. The former Marseille, whose famous sextape ended up triggering the scandal we know, has not set foot in the selection since the affair broke out in November 2015. But he is a good player, almost six years later.
“Deschamps comes out a winner in all cases”
“I have no comment to make on this. If he can bring more to the France team, so much the better for the Blues. Afterwards, it will be on the ground that it will be played, quite simply. I have nothing more to say. There was a choice of the coach. For me, Didier Deschamps comes out a winner in all cases. If the France team works, we will say that he had to adapt despite a difficult context. If France performs less, we will not blame it. This is what he knows how to do well, he knows how to make his lists. In attack, he has no guarantees, he made his choices. I think he will come out a winner in any case ”.
Always brilliant in Greece, where he accumulates assists and trophies with Olympiakos, Valbuena is not scandalized not to have been warned beforehand: “If the coach called me? No and I don’t expect anything from anyone. When we are at the top, everyone is talking about you, when we disappear from the radar a little, we do not expect anything from anyone. I make my life, I take pleasure in the field. I’m not expecting anything from Didier or anyone else, if you want to know if he called me, I say no ”.