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Benzema's Shock Return for France?

ESPN FC

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Soccer, Sports

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew react to reports that Karim Benzema could be available to play for France in the World Cup Final after recovering from the previous injury that had ruled him out of the tournament. Plus, Pablo Zabaleta joins the show to break down just how much Lionel Messi means to Argentinian fans and the guys analyze Enzo Fernandez's possible move to Liverpool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome into the latest edition of ESPNFC, K-Marie Craig-Virley and Ali Moreno

0:39.6

here in the studio. And of course, we're talking about the World Cup final coming up on Sunday

0:44.3

between Argentina and France as we take a look at the odds for this one. What a battle it

0:49.1

is going to be. Odds seem to be changing each day with the bookmakers too. They can't

0:53.8

make their minds up either. It's the people that put the money on you.

1:00.8

What a final it's going to be, hey, two of the biggest names in World Football going head-to-head

1:04.8

in Lionel Messi and Killian and Bappé as well. Let's welcome in a few more shall we.

1:09.1

Pablo Zabaleta, Luis Garcia and Julian Laron are also with us, two of the guys from Qatar,

1:14.4

Pablo's Imadrid. But Jules, I want to start with you because we know the injury force

1:18.8

Karim Benzema to actually retire from the squad at least for the World Cup, but Dishamp

1:24.4

didn't replace him. And now there are reports, Jules, that he's actually available. Could

1:29.8

it happen? Could we see him coming back? No, no, I'm just saying the thing we have to stop

1:38.5

talking about that now is you might come here, you might come back to Doha as a fan and

1:43.6

watch the final from the Loose Eye Stadium like where we will be, but he's not going

1:47.7

to play. He's not going to be on the bench. He played today against Leganes, he hadn't

1:51.7

played for six weeks. His son is with him in the training camp with Real Madrid. I don't

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