Benzema will wear number 19 at the Eurocup

Karim Benzema, who returns to the French national team after five and a half years of absence, will wear number 19 at the Eurocup, while Kylian Mbappé will keep the 10, Antoine Griezmann with the 7 and Olivier giroud with the 9, announced this Friday the French Football Federation (FFF) through social networks.

Benzema, 33, thus recovers the number that he wore in his origins as a professional player in the Olympique de Lyon in the mid-2000s.

In the Real Madrid the Algerian-born player has worn the number 9 since 2010. In the season of his arrival, the 2009/10 player wore the number 11.

Benzema was summoned for the Eurocup, which is disputed in several European countries between June 11 and July 11, after spending five and a half years without wearing the “bleus” shirt due to the controversial scandal about his alleged involvement in a blackmail of Mathieu Valbuena.

France is in a complicated group, the F, in which they will be measured at Germany, Hungary and Portugal.