Even the Ballon d’Or can’t beat Giroud: it’s the number Benzema will wear and it’s not the ‘9’

Neither the return to the national team after some absence, nor the presence of a world such as Qatar, or the fact of having won the golden ball. Nothing can help Benzema to wear the ‘9’ in the French team during the World Cup.

The number bearer par excellence of the striker will be Olivier Giroudthe striker of Milan, which did not yield and will maintain the number it has worn in recent years. In this way, Benzema will wear, as happened in the last Euro Cup, the 19.

It’s a decision France This is completely understandable but it can create the first clashes in a dressing room where Didier Deschamps has to control a lot of ego because there are also figures like Mbappé, Griezmann or Varane.

These are France’s numbers for the World Cup

GOALKEEPERS

1 scream

16 Mandanda

23 Areola

DEFENSES

2 Pavard

3 Disasi

4 Varane

5 Koundé

17 came out

18 Upamecano

21 Lucas Hernandez

22 Theo Hernandez

24 Konate

MIDFIELDERS

6 Guendouzi

8 Tchouameni

13 Fofana

14 Rabiot

15 Veretout

25 Camavinga

FRONTS

7 Griezmann

9 Giroud

10 Mbappe

11 Dembele

12 Nkunku

19 Benzema

20 eat

26 thuram