Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has announced his retirement from the France national team a day after his country lost the 2022 World Cup final in Qatar against Argentina.
“I made the effort and the mistakes it took to be where I am today and I’m proud of it! I wrote my story and ours ends,” the 35-year-old Real Madrid Madrid Striker wrote on Twitter.
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An injury had forced the current Ballon d’Or winner to withdraw from the World Cup ahead of France’s first match in Qatar. He scored 37 goals for France in 97 appearances.
He won the Ballon d’Or award in October, had been desperate to feature in Qatar having not been selected when France won the World Cup in Russia four years ago.
He was frozen out of the France team for five and a half years because of his involvement in a blackmail scandal over a sextape involving his former teammate Mathieu Valbuena.
In a trial last year he was handed a one-year suspended prison sentence and fined 75,000 euros ($79,500).
