France's striker Karim Benzema has announced his retirement from international football after Didier Deschamps refused to include him in the World Cup final against Argentina.
“I made the effort and mistakes it took to be where I am today and I’m proud of it!” Benzema wrote on Twitter. “I wrote my story and ours is ending,”
Benzema had left the French national team camp due to pain in the thigh muscles.
The relations between the Real Madrid striker and Deschamps deteriorated because Benzema was ready to exert every effort to participate at the end of the first round, but the coaching staff did not want to keep him and he was expelled from the camp.