Benzema will wear the number '19' with France

It is official: Karim Benzema will wear the '19' in the French national team for this European Championship. The team led by Didier Deschamps has confirmed on social networks the numbers that their players will wear on their shirts. The '9' that Karim wears in Madrid will be for Olivier Giroud, Chelsea forward and usual in the calls. The 10'What Benzema wore in the National Team before his break Mbappé will take it as usual.

Benzema, who had not been called up with France from a list in October 2015, playing his last match against Armenia on October 8 of that year, has been awarded by Deschamps after an extraordinary season for the Real Madrid player in which he has scored 29 goals in 45 games in all competitions.

The main reason for Benzema's absences from Deschamps' plans had been the 'sextape' he starred in with Mathieu Valbuena in 2015. The current Olympiacos player accused Benzema of accomplice in a crime of blackmail And, after many years of controversy, the French Prosecutor's Office confirmed that the trial will take place in October.

Support to Benzema from Space

The French Astronaut Thomas Pesquet has celebrated the return of his compatriot Karim Benzema from the International Space Station, where it arrived at the end of April. “Of the return of Benzema to the selection we found out even in the Space”, published.