France's top scorer in the Champions League, Karim Benzema has 81 caps in the French national team, but has not been called to France since 8 October 2015. On 13 April 2016, the Real Madrid ...

And then there was Zenati, the childhood friend with whom Benzema grew up in the Lyon suburb of Bron. Tall and trim, all in black, leaning forward over the cylindrical steel bar of the stand ...