RIBEIRAO PRETO, Brazil (AP) — Mathieu Valbuena didn’t play a single minute for France at the European Championship two years ago. Now he is an integral part of the team and making a name for himself ...

Karim Benzema has been found guilty of conspiring to blackmail Mathieu Valbuena with a sex tape and handed a one-year suspended prison sentence plus a fine of $84,000. A Versailles judge ruled on ...

With her husband involved in one of soccer’s biggest ever sex scandal, will Mathieu Valbuena’s wife stand by her man? The soccer star is married to Fanny Lafon. On the morning of November 4, it was ...

France coach Didier Deschamps has offered his backing to Mathieu Valbuena and stressed that the Lyon winger is the blameless victim in a blackmail case that has seen Karim Benzema suspended from the ...

Mathieu Valbuena completed a move from Lyon to Fenerbahce on Tuesday after agreeing a €1.5 million deal with the Turkish club. After passing a medical, the 32-year-old is expected to sign a two-year ...

FFF President Philippe Diallo: ‘French football needs a Marseille competing at the top of the table.’ The President of the FFF, Philippe Diallo, has told La Provence that French football needs an ...

Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has coldly rejected a potential peacemaking opportunity with former international colleague Mathieu Valbuena after the latter declared that he would be prepared to ...

Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has reportedly conceded he lied to his France team-mate Mathieu Valbuena about seeing a sex tape at the centre of an alleged blackmail scandal. “I should have told ...

Valencia are bidding for Marseille central attacking midfielder Mathieu Valbuena, per Tom Conn at Inside Spanish Football, so should Arsenal hijack the bid? To cover that hypothetical scenario, here ...

With a bright performance in the World Cup from France’s bite-size winger Mathieu Valbuena, links are beginning to trickle in with clubs interested in signing him. With Olympique Marseille since 2006, ...