Benito back in the squad at the age of 31: “The matches for the national team mean everything to me!”

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Cuckoo. Loris Benito is back! More than two years after his last international match, a five-minute appearance in Switzerland’s 3-1 victory over Turkey at the 2020 European Championship, which he classified as an absolute highlight of his career, the man from Aargau is back in the national team . And at the age of 31. A great comeback.

Because Benito is making it as a new player, so to speak. At that time he was in the selection as a left back. But he has now mutated into a central defender. At YB he was given a permanent position in this position.

Amenda narrowed

He chased it away from Aurèle Amenda (20), the gifted one. The man who owns the future. Clubs from all over Europe have already offered very large sums of money for him, so it was assumed that the gift would also be from him. But Benito does so well regardless of the four-man or three-man defense that he is currently an integral part of the YB defensive network. And yes. He also scores two goals…

The player himself has always emphasized that he never lost confidence in the national team. That returning to this illustrious circle was one of his main motivations. It is in the nature of things that he was ridiculed for this. And the astonishing final years of the former Benfica Lisbon player’s career. During the Corona period he will be sidelined in Bordeaux 2021.

“Persona non grata” in Bordeaux

In the end they don’t even let him go to the training ground. “Persona non grata,” he says about the situation at the time. He terminates the contract of his own accord, because no club wants him. So he is free. After six months, Christian shows Constantin mercy and gives him a job. It was the best of the several options he had, he said at the time. Knowing that Sion has a reputation as a graveyard for Nati players. Nevertheless, during the presentation he spoke about his desire to play for Qatar in the World Cup.

Nothing will come of it. But six months later YB brings him back and he pays less than a million to FC Sion. And then Benito becomes a regular player. Last season left back. Central from here. And there he is, for example, in all Champions League matches, in the play-offs and in the group.

Never lost confidence

Now the great line-up that Benito is “extremely proud” of, he tells “SRF”: “I believed in it and worked on it every day in the two years I was away. It means the world to me! The best matches of my career were for the national team. I feel incredibly comfortable in Switzerland. I was born and raised here. The national team matches mean everything to me.”

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Source : Blick