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France striker Karim Benzema is retired of the 2022 World Cup successful Qatar aft helium sustained a thigh wounded successful training.
Benzema won the 2022 Ballon d'Or, fixed to the subordinate of the twelvemonth successful satellite football, aft helping Real Madrid triumph the Champions League and La Liga.
The French nationalist squad said helium had suffered a thigh occupation and would not beryllium capable to diagnostic successful tournament.
"The full squad shares Karim's sadness and wishes him a speedy recovery," it added.
The French Football Federation said the wounded would request "three weeks of convalescence".
France are successful Group D and play Australia connected 22 November, Denmark connected 26 November and Tunisia connected 30 November.
Head manager Didier Deschamps has until Monday to sanction a replacement and the wounded to 34-year-old Benzema, who has scored 37 times successful 97 matches for France, is different stroke for the World Cup holders.
They are already without midfielders Paul Pogba and N'Golo Kante due to the fact that of wounded portion Manchester United defender Raphael Varane is trying to beryllium acceptable to play having missed his past 5 nine matches.
On Wednesday, RB Leipzig guardant Christopher Nkunku was ruled retired of the tourney aft helium limped retired of training, with Eintracht Frankfurt's Randal Kolo Muani called up arsenic a replacement.
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