French coach Didier Deschamps holds a news conference after announcing the France's squad list for the UEFA Euro 2020 football tournament on French television channel TF1 in Boulogne Billancourt, on the outskirts of Paris, France May 18, 2021. Franck Fife/Pool via REUTERS
(Reuters) - France coach Didier Deschamps said he put the interests of the national team above everything else when he decided to call up Karim Benzema to the squad for the European Championship.
Benzema, 33, will return for Les Bleus more than five years after the last of his 81 caps following a blackmailing scandal over which he faces a trial in October.
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