Around mid-February, we brought you a story from Tunisia that Leicester City’s Yohan Benalouane had finally decided to play for his national team after being contacted ‘many times’ on the subject.
The centre-back, who has only appeared four times for the Foxes this season, was said to be prioritising his club career, but considering that isn’t exactly going well, he’d decided to change his mind.
However, since then, we haven’t exactly heard anything on the subject, and that’s because there’s been resistance.
According to Kapitalis, while Benalouane has indeed been approached by Nabil Maaloul, the national team’s manager, ‘federal members’ are said to be ‘firmly opposed’ to him playing due to his past refusals.
That won’t be ideal for the player, who is quite clearly short on match fitness, and with a contract keeping him at King Power Stadium until the end of next season and no one interested in his services, it could be a long year and a half for the 30-year-old.
