Widely followed on social networks, particularly on Instagram where he has more than 76 million subscribers, Karim Benzema knows perfectly how to use these platforms to convey certain messages. A few days ago, in a story, for example, he took an extract from an interview given by Bernard Tapie to Audrey Pulvar, in 2014 on CNews, in which the ex-president of OM had said: “I talk about football with people who know football. »
Who was this “punchline” aimed at? Difficult to say, but the French striker (37 years old) is in any case listening to everything that is said about him. New proof with the clash which pitted him on Monday against a YouTuber accusing him of remembering his African origins “only when things are bad”. Enough to knock “KB9” off its hinges. “You have to dose it my friend, you open it a little too much. Stay focused »replied the Al-Ittihad striker in Saudi Arabia.
Karim Benzema: “You have to dose my friend”
In his video, this streamer used Benjamin Mendy’s trip to Senegal to pin down the former Lyonnais, who recently appeared in the jersey of Algeria, the country of origin of his parents. “They did not calculate their country of origin throughout their career and it was only after being spat on by the French team, by the French media that they began to tell themselves that they have African origins »he said.
“Benzema, (Samir) Nasri, (Nabil) Fekir, they did not want to choose the Algerian selection because the selection was not strong enough at the time. But if all three had chosen Algeria, it would have been different”he continued. Words which therefore did not please the former number 9 of Real Madrid, who retired internationally with the Blues at the end of the 2022 World Cup, after having scored 37 goals in 97 selections under the tricolor jersey.
