Almost 38 years old, Karim Benzema does not seem ready to hang up his boots. If his contract with Al-Ittihad ends next June, the former Madrilenian hopes to play two more years. Whether in Saudi Arabia, where he “feels very good” as he confided in a long interview given to AS, or elsewhere.
“The end of my contract is approaching here, it’s true. I can’t say yet if I’m going to stay or go, it depends on a lot of things.”he confided, not excluding a return to the Old Continent: “It’s true that I have offers in Europe. I have to examine everything, choose well and see where I feel good, without forgetting that I am comfortable here and receive affection from everyone. We’ll see. In any case, I’m not going to stop playing football in six months. »
And while he seemed to have given up on the France team after having to leave the Blues just before the 2022 World Cup due to an injury, the former Ballon d’Or does not rule out returning to the selection either. “The national team is still a little far away, but you never know”he slipped.
Karim Benzema fan of Zinedine Zidane
The departure of Didier Deschamps at the end of the next World Cup and the probable appointment of Zinedine Zidane to the bench of the France team will inevitably serve his purposes. KB9 obviously only has good things to say about his former coach at Real Madrid.
“I think Zidane has everything it takes to get there. He proved it at Real Madrid. There is another coach now, but I think Zidane is number one,”
he said about the native of Marseille, who will open this new chapter with the France team next September.
