It is a sequence that had gone around the football planet. At halftime of the Champions League match between Real Madrid and Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2020, Karim Benzema had been filmed in the process of speaking to Ferland Mendy. KB9 clearly said: “He does what he wants. Brother does not play with him. He plays against us, my mother's life ” About Vinicius Jr.
Five years later, in a documentary broadcast on Netflix around Vinicius Jr, Karim Benzema returned to his words. “It's just things that are said in football. It's normal, it's not horrible. It's a bit like I was talking about my little brother ”he launched while the Brazilian also reacted. “He came to see me then … He saw the potential I had”