Benzema and Giroud fighting over social media
Excessive free time has prompted Karim Benzema to make somewhat derogatory comments about his compatriot Olivier Giroud, but the response has not been long and the two French strikers have been in the spotlight since yesterday.
Social networks and their apparent intimacy
When public figures like football players decide to make direct on their social networks they may think they are only answering some questions from fans and friends who connect with them, but in fact they are providing very interesting material for an information-hungry press these days, taking into account the lack of sporting activity.
Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema is said to have fallen on his own when he confessed that he considered himself an F1 while Chelsea striker Olivier Giroud was just a kart. Naturally, the striker did not come out with this comment out of the blue and only said it after someone compared him to Giroud, something that led Benzema to clarify that he is considered to be far above his fellow Frenchman.
It is true that Karim Benzema has a much more assertive and successful track record than Olivier Giroud at club level, having assumed himself as a virtually indisputable Real Madrid starter for years and winning immense trophies of great importance, from which stand out several Champions Leagues.
But Olivier Giroud chose to respond to Karim Benzema alluding to another achievement that his compatriot can hardly achieve in his career …
A world champion kart …
At a time when athletes are at a standstill and therefore more connected to social media, Olivier Giroud’s response was not long-awaited and the charismatic striker at Chelsea made a point of mentioning that “am I a kart? But a world champion kart ”.
This was a response that can be considered particularly correct since it puts its finger on Benzema’s wound, since the player was removed from the Gallic selection for a less dignified attitude with Mathieu Valbuena and since then has not returned to the national team of his country. , having missed important competitions such as Euro 2016 and the 2018 World Cup where France was runner-up and champion, respectively.
In a way, Olivier Giroud would have tried to hurt Benzema’s susceptibility while boasting that he had achieved something of enormous magnitude for a French player.
The two players are already in an advanced stage of their careers and may not even return to the final stages of national team competitions, but the truth does not hide that Giroud is effectively World Champion for France, something that Benzema did not manage even in the case of an F1 prototype …
Benzema continues to deny his country?
During the direct match in which Benzema communicated with fans and friends, the Real Madrid striker was in conversation with another mythical scorer from the Merengue club, Ronaldo o Fenomeno. During the conversation, Benzema confessed that he became interested in football when he saw Ronaldo in action, adding that the Brazilian did absolutely fantastic things that no other striker can do.
The Frenchman even said that he tried to replicate some of the movements of the world champion in Brazil in 2002, but that it is very difficult to achieve it. But what surprised him most in this conversation was Karim Benzema’s confession when he mentioned that Ronaldo is his greatest idol, although he also mentioned the name of Zinedine Zidane.
In fact, his praise for the Brazilian goes a little further and during the reaction to Olivier Giroud’s response, Benzema reaffirmed what he had said and added that it is a very simple comparison, leaving an example.
If compared to Ronaldo, then the kart would be him and F1 would be the Brazilian, showing that the comparison made was exclusively an assessment of the player’s quality and never a disrespect for a teammate, however, it is evident that these are statements that they don’t exactly look good on a professional player, especially when the two players compared are still active.
Gallic reminiscence
French football has had immense stories of contempt among team-mates or compatriots with the World Cup in South Africa to be one of those examples. In 2010, disagreements were notorious and this marked a kind of end of cycle that brought new talents to the fore.
Currently, Paul Pogba, Antoine Griezmann or Kylian Mbappe are the stars of the company that boast the status of world champions, but will have to wait until 2021 to try to add a European title that eluded them in 2016 for Portugal.
